eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2474-1434 2021-03-25 7 2 41 45 10.12691/wjssh-7-2-1 WJSSH2021721 article The Cause of Desire in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Xiaoshuang Dong 15093991723@163.com 1 Lixin Zhang 1 School of Foreign Languages, CUPL (China University of Political Science and Law), Beijing, China A literature response to Lacan's concept of the objet petit a - the imaginary ˇ°object-causeˇ± of desire, which accounts for certain consciousness and unconsciousness of Scarlett for her pursuit of Ashely. And then I explore the Lacanian dimension of phantasy and gaze appear in object a to elucidate the inner object-cause of desire of Scarlett in order to demonstrate the lack and loss deep in her mind of symbolic castration to her mother. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjssh/7/2/1/wjssh-7-2-1.pdf Lacan desire objet petit a gaze Gone with the Wind