Who's Narcissism? Whose Desire?

Jacques Lacan (1901 —1981) is an important French thinker in 20^th century, and what he put forward is "Mirror Stage", "The desire is for the other", "The unconscious is the discourse of the other". Yu Tai Xin Yong is a Chinese classic literature work, which taking Chinese female as topic, collected poems from Han Dynasty to Liang Dynasty. It is not random to read Yu Tai Xin Yong in the view of the theories of narcissism and desire of lacan, so the possibility is inquired in Part 1 of this thesis.According to Lacan's theory, Part 2 divides female image into two types to discuss. Women of the first type take the things (a round fan or blossom) or the others (for example, those strangers in Mulberry up the lane) as a mirror, and from the mirror they recognize themselves as a beauty both inward and outward; moreover, some male poets take them as their mirror. Women of the second type come from poets in Qi and Liang Dynasty who are similar to things in poems.Part 3 mainly deals with the desire of characters in poems and also poets, which forms the female image. Man who is not present, is the desire object of women of the first type, and these women indirectly express their desire to man. However, in Court poems of Qi and Liang Dynasty, man is usually the audience of female dancers and singers, therefore man is present. Moreover, these female dancers and singers directly and actively express their desire to man, which put forward the problem of male poets' desire and therefore it is also discussed in Part 3.