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[[Freud]] valued [[art]] as one of [[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.

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

[[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.