This work establishes a path in the Freudian work and in the teaching of J. Lacan around the object of psychoanalysis and its relationship with art. Our route begins with S.Freud, in the scope of the experience, especially with regard to the text the Uncanny of 1919, passing through Lacan s teaching, notably in his Seminars on Ethics, Anguish and in his 1964 study about the gaze as an object (petit a). During this journey, we made contact with the work of artists, predominantly visual, what confirmed us Freud s sentence, reaffirmed by Lacan, according to which the artist precedes the psychoanalyst. This sentence established for us an orientation: we study the Lacanian concept of the real and the way that art can transmit and teach the psychoanalyst ways of dealing with what escapes and exceeds symbolic articulation. We studied how certain images would be able to circumscribe this excess in a composition that, although it does not accommodate it completely, offers a possible place for it. At the end, a different clinical direction took our attention and pointed to the clinic of psychoses - beyond the structure and the object. At this stage, the artist can once again guide us from a parallel drawn between the invention, formulated by Miller and attributed to psychosis, and the construction of unique subjective arrangements and solutions close to creation and artistic making.