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The Cause of Desire in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

1School of Foreign Languages, CUPL (China University of Political Science and Law), Beijing, China


World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2021, Vol. 7 No. 2, 41-45
DOI: 10.12691/wjssh-7-2-1
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Xiaoshuang Dong, Lixin Zhang. The Cause of Desire in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2021; 7(2):41-45. doi: 10.12691/wjssh-7-2-1.

Correspondence to: Xiaoshuang  Dong, School of Foreign Languages, CUPL (China University of Political Science and Law), Beijing, China. Email: 15093991723@163.com

Abstract

A literature response to Lacan's concept of the objet petit a - the imaginary “object-cause” 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.

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