Philosophical and Psychological Aspects
Several writers on urbex have discussed the personal meaning of such acts of "infiltration" - or "invasions". Simon Cornwell, in his discussions of the Cane Hill Cult (in Croydon, South London), has emphasized the element of danger in recording the experiences - physically, emotionally and photographically. This element of danger serves to heighten the existential anxiety of exploration. Here, the task is akin to psychological recovery, and the mental hospital, so long a refuge for the discarded and the dispossessed, is now itself discarded. In this context, the work of the explorers is akin to that of psychotherapists in their exploration of psychological structures excited by historic traumas.
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