The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road. - J. G. Ballard

At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project — an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.

After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised

In their eyes I must have appeared like some kind of nightmarish totem, a domestic idiot suffering from the irreversible brain damage of a motorway accident and now put out each morning to view the scene of his own cerebral death.