Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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eBook - ePub

Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

About this book

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. 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, 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.

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040440100
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Beyond Laocoon
  11. 2 Three models of narrative painting
  12. 3 Looking at a painting as a phantasmatic structure
  13. 4 The split image: Constituting visual narrativity
  14. 5 The gaze and the picture: Temporality, reflexivity and blindness as vision
  15. 6 The subject position of the viewer: The case of self-portraiture
  16. 7 Subject positions in perspective: Amplifying or negating narrativity
  17. 8 Las Meninas: The viewer is inscribed in the painting
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index