Efrat Biberman

Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

This book will be key reading for Lacanian psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as art scholars wishing to gain a fresh perspective on narrativity in art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040440094
• Artikelnr.: 76006773

Autorenporträt

Efrat Biberman is a Professor of Theory and Philosophy of art at Beit Berl College. Her research focuses on art and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is the author of Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (with Shirley Zisser, 2018) and Weaving a Painting: Israeli Art and Lacan's Late Teaching (2022, in Hebrew).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beyond Laocoon 2. Three models of narrative painting 3. Three models of
narrative painting 4. The split image: constituting visual narrativity 5.
The gaze and the picture: temporality, reflexivity and blindness as vision
6. The subject position of the viewer: the case of self-portraiture 7.
Subject positions in perspective: amplifying or negating narrativity 8.
Subject positions in perspective: amplifying or negating narrativity