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This book analyses 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. The 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, the 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.
This book will be key reading for Lacanian psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and art scholars wishing to gain a fresh new perspective on narrativity in art.
Title: Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Format: Paperback Book
Release Date: 15 Dec 2025
Type: Efrat Biberman
Sku: 3452203
Catalogue No: 9781032850771
Category: Psychology
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