Chapter 1
1Kierkegaard, Søren, Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs, trans. Piety (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009), 5.
All Vaneigem quotes from: Vaneigem, Raoul, The Revolution of Everyday Life, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Norfolk, UK: Rebel Press, 2006), 30.
Chapter 2
1The Register News (Mt. Vernon, IL), October 25, 1949.
2It isn’t.
All Janet Malcolm quotes from: Janet Malcolm, The Impossible Profession (London, UK: Picador, 1988).
All Freud quotes from: Sigmund Freud, Psychology of Love (London, UK: Penguin, 2006), unless otherwise stated.
Chapter 3
1Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Reader (London, UK: Penguin, 2006), 462.
Chapter 4
1Sigmund Freud, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 7 (London, UK: Vintage, 1905).
2http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dwell.
3Homer, Odyssey, Book 19, trans. A. T. Murray (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919).
All Heidegger quotes from: Martin Heidegger, Building Dwelling Thinking, in Poetry, Language, Thought (London, UK: HarperCollins, 1971).
Chapter 5
1Michel Foucault, Birth of The Clinic (London, UK: Routledge, 2003), 4.
2Although this quote is widespread online, I can find no confirmed source. It is possibly fictional.
3Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 4 (London, UK: Vintage, 1955), 844.
4Sigmund Freud, Dora, cited in introduction by Phillip Rieff (New York, USA: Touchstone Books, 1977), vii.
5Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 17 (London, UK: Vintage, 1955), 248.
Chapter 6
1Simon Louvish, Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin (New York: Macmillan, 2006), 350–51.
2Another untraceable Mae West quote.
3http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/162567/every_woman_deserves_a_swanky.
4http://www.mommyish.com/2013/10/13/couple-gives-birth-in-hotel-room/.
5Sigmund Freud, “A Case of Hysteria”, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 7 (London, UK: Vintage, 1955), 90.
6Sigmund Freud, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 20 (London, UK: Vintage, 1959), 91.
7Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Complete Works, trans. Strachey, vol. 5 (London, UK: Vintage, 1955), 17.
8Sigmund Freud, letter, cited in Eran J. Rolnik, Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity (London: Karnac Books, 2012), 141.
9Denise Riley, Impersonal Passion, Language as Affect (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 51.
All Katherine Mansfield quotes from: Katherine Mansfield), Collected Stories (London, UK: Penguin, 1981). All Oscar Wilde quotes from: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (London: Methuen, 1981).
Chapter 7
1https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/hospital-hotel/.
2None of these Wilde quotations can be verified.
3Charlotte Chandler, Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends (London: Sphere Books, 1987). All Oscar Wilde quotes from: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (London: Methuen, 1981).
All Room Service quotes from my transcript of the movie.
Chapter 9
All Grand Hotel quotes from my transcription of the movie.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THANK you, early readers Isabella Streffen, Tristram Burke, John Toby Ferris, Richard Barnett, and Sharon Kivland, and my first reader, as always, Lauren Elkin. Thank you, Deborah Levy, for guiding me to the German Pension. Thank you again, Deborah, and also Brian Dillon, and Olivia Laing, for sponsoring my proposal.
INDEX
abjection here, here
accommodations
amenities here, here, here, here — here, here — here, here
bars here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here, here
bathrooms here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
bedrooms here, here, here — here
behavior here, here — here, here — here, here, here, here — here
boutique here, here, here, here
business here — here, here, here — here
chains here, here, here
childbirth here — here
color here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here
complaints here, here, here
conceptual here, here, here — here, here
corridors here, here, here, here, here
costs here, here, here, here — here, here — here, here, here, here
death here, here, here, here, here
decor here — here, here, here, here, here, here
design here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
desire here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
dining here — here, here, here, here
disappointment here, here, here, here, here, here
disconnection here
doctors here
dreams here — here, here — here, here
dwelling here, here, here
elevators here — here, here, here, here
en-suites here — here
entertainment here — here
erotics here, here, here, here, here, here
escape here, here, here, here, here, here
in film here, here, here, here — here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here — here
food here — here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
furnishings here, here — here, here
gender here — here
ghosts here, here — here, here, here, here, here
guests here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here — here
gyms here
haunting here — here
hipness here — here
home-away here, here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here — here, here, here, here
hospitality here, here, here
illness here — here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here
illusion here, here
and the impersonal here, here, here
keys here, here, here — here
language here, here, here
leisure here, here, here
libraries here, here — here
in literature here, here — here, here, here, here, here
lobbies here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here — here, here, here
loneliness here, here, here, here, here
and loss here
passivity here
performance here, here
permission here
personal here, here
place here
postcards here — here, here — here
privacy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here — here