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==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|works ]] also abound in discussions of particular [[art|works of art]].
Like [[Freud]], [[Lacan ]] devotes most of his attention to [[art|works of literature ]] of all genres: * prose (e.g. the discussion of The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe in <ref>{{S2, ch}} Ch. 16, and Lacan, 1955a; {{1955}}</ref>), * drama (e.g. the discussions of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Lacan, 1958-9, and of Sophocles' Antigone in S7, chs 19-21) and * poetry (e.g. the discussion of Booz endormi by Victor Hugo in S3, 218- 25; S4, 377-8; E, 156-8; S8, 158-9).
However, Lacan also discusses the visual arts, devoting several lectures in his 1964 seminar to discussing painting, particularly anamorphotic art (Sll, chs 7-9, where he discusses Holbein's The Ambassadors; see also S7, 139-42).
