Introduction
Chapter One Lacan's Concept of Desire and Dickinson's Metaphor
1.1 Lacan's Concept of Desire
1.1.1 Tile Origin of Lacan's Concept of Desire
1.1.2 The Development of the Subject
1.1.3 The Symbolic Other
1.1.4 The Unconscious
1.1.5 The Desire of the Other
1.2 Dickinson's Metaphor, a "Slant" Way to Tell the Truth

Chapter Two Desire of "the Poet"
2.1 Women in Nineteenth-Century America
2.1.1 The Influence of Being Nobody on Dickinson
2.1.2 Female Virtue of Giving up
2.1.3 Publication is the AuctiOn of the Mind of Man
2.2 Poet and Poetic Aesthetic
2.2.1 The Representative of the Verse is Dickinson herself
2.2.2 The World never Wrote to Me
2.2.3 Dickinson's Poetic Aesthetic of Circumference
2.3 Fame as Subjects
2.3.1 Dickinson's Sense of Lack of Fame
2.3.2 Earning Fame by Disdaining it

Chapter Three Dickinson's Unconscious Desire
3.1 Solitary and Hungry
3.1.1 Poems on Loneliness
3.1.2 Poems on Despair
3.1.3 Metaphors of Food and Drink
3.2 Imprisonment and Escapement
3.2.1 Metaphors of Imprisonment
3.2.2 Imagine the Liberty

Chapter Four The Desire of the Other
4.1 Conflict with the Other
4.1.1 Skepticism toward Omnipotent God
4.1.2 The Little Girl's Disobedience
4.1.3 The Impulse to Erupt as Volcano
4.2 The Superior Status of the Other
4.2.1 Intersubjectivity between "I" and "Thou"
4.2.2 The Requirement of the Other as a Woman and a Wife
4.2.3 The Reason of Refusal
Conclusions
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