Artistic Immortality as an Objet Petit a: The Subject of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

This study presents a psychoanalytical reading of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” having an eye on Žižek’s theory the subject. contains host components providing illustration psychological status. In such case, Žižekian approach to psychoanalysis could provide suitable paradigm for analytical poem. The works Žižek conducted disputatious re-articulations subject/object, displacement objet petit (object desire) with object-cause desire, and parallax. Žižek, like Hegel, accentuates one-to-one relationship subject object while introducing parallax ticklish subject, which are later followed by tickling object. It is thus possible illustrate status Coleridge in course writing Khan.” poem pictures path immortality it search immortalize its poet too. this study, demonstrated how his a, ‘artistic immortality,’ lines