Browsing: Lacan

Dalí’s melting clocks provide a visual counterpart to Surrealism’s transformation of reality, where time, perception, desire, and the unconscious replace rational stability with fluid and unstable meaning.

Picasso’s fragmented portrait of Dora Maar becomes a critical field for examining hysteria, desire, Lacanian lack, jouissance, the female image, and the limits of Representation.

The Zeuxis–Parrhasius problem of deceptive appearance becomes a point of departure for examining artificial intelligence, Hegelian–Lacanian subjectivity, language, symbolic performance, and ontological deception.

Iconography identifies and interprets figures, attributes, symbols, and scenes while connecting visual recognition with historical traditions, cultural memory, and changing systems of meaning.

Iconology moves beyond identifying figures and symbols to interpret the cultural worldview, social mentality, ideological structures, and historical memory carried by images.

Style organizes the formal language of an artwork while carrying historical worldview, cultural mentality, ideological orientation, individual artistic decisions, and psychological tension.

Type describes recurring visual forms that preserve cultural memory while changing across historical periods, artistic styles, ideological structures, and psychoanalytic interpretations.

The symbol connects visible form with invisible meaning across mythology, Christian iconography, Renaissance allegory, modern art, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural memory.

Norman Bryson connects psychoanalysis, discourse theory, visual rhetoric, ideology, and regimes of the gaze within a critical reconstruction of art-historical method.

Starting from Žižek’s formula of “knowledge without a knower,” this essay examines how artificial intelligence transforms the relation between knowledge, subjectivity, responsibility, and truth.