Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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 narrat...