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Kim, Kyung-Soon. “The Psychoanalytic Conception of the Subject and Real Gaze: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.3(2010): 1-17. The focus of this study is on the desire to move the governess to see the ghost and furthermore, the desire to move readers to follow the perspective of the governess. Governess’s experience of ghost in The Turn of the Screw tells us about the dialogic, fluid, or centrifugal nature of the traumatic real as well as marks a point of non-meaning or a point of inarticulateness in narrative. In Lacan, the concept of trauma is used to denote a desire, that is, a structure of subjectivity split by the inaccessible part of experience and is related to the gaze theory as well. As Lacan says in Écrits, “it is precisely because of desire which is not articulable that there is no final coherence of human life.”(302) My interest involves the negativity of consciousness filled with something unintelligible, something hostile, as embodied in the governess. In conclusion, for Lacan, “the Real as a modality of representation refers to that which cannot be directly experienced like death and trauma.” (Yeungnam University)