INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL RESEARCH

Article represents demonstration «machine of Lakan’s economy» as symbolical, productive and reproducing, an exchange and synthesis of arts. In its basis critical analysis of psychoanalytic models of reconstruction of sensuality. Comparing methods of direct reading of the Copper Horseman who has been carried out by Vladimir Toporov through the prism of George Fedotov, and perusal of a picture of Ivan Kramskoy "Unknown person" Olga Kirillova through the prism of Lakan, the author gives the concept of existence of the Horsewoman as concealed pole of the Petersburg text of Russian culture.