Abstract

The author examines some aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s work. The hypothesis of the text is that in the writings of the great American poet can be traced an instance of openness to what Lacanian psychoanalysis calls the real, in the form of repetition but above all in that of ecstasy. The other side of Edgar Allan Poe’s work consists of his great trust in logos, as shown by the ‘mathematical’ method of his character Dupin. The two sides are not only the reverse of each other but, above all, inseparable and necessary to each other.