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[[Freud ]] valued [[art ]] as one of humanity[[human]]ity's great [[culture|cultural ]] [[civilization|institutions]], and dedicated many papers to discussing both the process of [[art|artistic creation ]] in general and certain [[art|works of art ]] in particular.

===Sublimation==He explained [[art|artistic creation ]] by reference to the concept of SUBLIMATION[[sublimation]], a process in which [[sexual ]] [[libido ]] is redirected towards [[sublimation|non-sexual aims]].

===Works of Literature===[[Freud ]] also dedicated a number of papers to analysing particular [[art|works of art]], especially works of [[literature]], which he argued could be useful to psychoanalysis in two main ways. # Firstly, these works often express in [[poetry|poetic form]] [[truth]]s about the [[psyche]], which implies that [[art|creative writers]] can intuit directly the [[truth]]s which [[psychoanalysts]] only discover later by more laborious means. # Secondly, [[Freud]] also argued that a close [[psychoanalytic]] [[interpretation|reading]] of [[art|works of literature]] could uncover elements of the author's [[psyche]].

Firstly, these works often express in poetic form truths about the psyche, which implies that creative writers can intuit directly the truths which psychoanalysts only discover later by more laborious means.  Secondly, Freud also argued that a close psychoanalytic reading of works of literature could uncover elements of the author's psyche.  While most of [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|papers ]] on particular [[art|works of art ]] concern [[art|works of literature]], he did not entirely neglect other [[art|art forms]]; for example he devoted one paper to discussing [[Michelangelo]]'s statue of [[Moses (Freud]].<ref>{{F}} "[[The Moses of Michelangelo]], " 1914b).[[SE]] XIII, 211.</ref>