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Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Biberman, Efrat

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1032850795
ISBN13: 9781032850795
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book analyzes narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.

Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory, poetics and more. Yet such points of view never shed light on its ambiguous status or nature. This book offers a new way of thinking about painting. Its point of departure is the complexity of the term narrative painting, which includes the relationship between painting and literature, as well as the boundaries of each medium. This book develops an alternative way of thinking about narrative painting, in which the viewer constitutes an active part in the visual narrative. Based on Lacanian topology, this book demonstrates how the subject is never distinguished from the painting she is looking at. Moreover, her way of seeing, which constitutes visual narrativity, is not necessarily unequivocal and coherent but partial, scotomized and fragmentary. This form of narrativity is explored through psychoanalytic concepts, such as fantasy, gaze and subject positions, which are discussed in light of their counterparts in the field of art theory.

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