The Virtuality of the Gaze in the Game of "The Purloined Letter"

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Cheol U Jang
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제46집 2호, 223~240쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.09.30

영문 초록

This essay explores how Edgar Allan Poe's detective story "The Purloined Letter" is related with the gaze beyond the Symbolic order. Lacan applies psychoanalytic theory to the story. He also argues that the gaze can be the objet petit a in terms of the visual. For the meaningful discourse between Lacan and Deleuze, I attempt to relocate the gaze in the realm of the virtual, since the gaze belongs to the field of the Other, not an actually seen gaze. The relationship between characters echoes the virtuality of the gaze in the Real. In other words, for the characters it is a matter of virtually being seen, not a matter of actually seeing. In the games of "The Purloined Letter," players wrestle with the guessing of odds and evens or worrying about seeing or being seen. In the case of the guessing game, the player has to deceive the opponent's eye and distracts the other's sight. Additionally, the fictional games the main characters play centering on the location of the letter is another guessing game. The virtual realm of the sight is the Real beyond the Symbolic order or the actual. Therefore, the game between Minister D- and Dupin shows us how to the actualization of the gaze is possible from the perspective of Deleuzian virtual. Hence, we can see the virtuality of the gaze in "The Purloined Letter."

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. "The Real" in the Game

Ⅲ. Gaze

Ⅳ. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

Edgar Allan Poe "The Purloined Letter" Jacques Lacan Gilles Deleuze the game the gaze objet petit a the virtual