Editing Psychoanalytic theory (section)

== Application to the arts and humanities ==
Psychoanalytic theory is a major influence in [[Continental philosophy]] and in [[aesthetics]] in particular. Freud is sometimes considered a philosopher. The psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]], and the philosophers [[Michel Foucault]], and [[Jacques Derrida]], have written extensively on how psychoanalysis informs philosophical analysis.<ref>Felman, Shoshana. Jacques Lacan and the adventure of insight: Psychoanalysis in contemporary culture. Harvard University Press, 1987.</ref><ref>Spector, Jack J. The aesthetics of Freud: A study in psychoanalysis and art. Lane, Allen, 1973.</ref><ref>Segal, Hanna. "A psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics." Reading Melanie Klein (1998): 203.</ref><ref>Glover, Nicky. Psychoanalytic aesthetics: An introduction to the British School. Karnac Books, 2009.</ref> Other philosophers such as [[Alain Badiou]] and [[Rafael Holmberg]] have argued that the meaning of psychoanalysis for philosophy was not immediately clear, but that they have come to reciprocally define each other. <ref>{{cite book |last1=Badiou |first1=Alain |title=The Adventure of French Philosophy |date=2012 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-1844677931}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holmberg |first1=Rafael |title=The Failed Interventions of Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience as a Proxy-Intervention to Psychoanalysis and Philosophy |journal=Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology |date=2023 |volume=44 |issue=4 |page=355-366 |doi=10.1037/teo0000261|url=https://philpapers.org/archive/HOLTFI-5.pdf }}</ref>

When analyzing literary texts, the psychoanalytic theory is sometimes used (often specifically with regard to the motives of the author and the characters) to reveal purported concealed meanings or to purportedly better understand the author's intentions.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lye|first=J|title=Psychoanalysis and Literature|url=http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/psychlit.php|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref>