![]() ![]() For a more comprehensive understanding of the sublime experience, one may turn to the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan and the postmodernist work of Slavoj Žižek, which lead to the conclusion that the dramatic chain of events in “Valdemar” is an example of the sliding signifier, and, moreover, that the instability of the signifier may explain the sublime effect. This essay aims to examine the characterizations of supernatural elements in the short stories The facts in the case of Mr. However, the story also draws particular attention to the means by which insight into the nature of death is acquired by the hypnotist who narrates the story. Valdemar exemplifies the sublime in that his death has somehow been suspended in time because he was under hypnosis as part of a medical experiment at the moment of his passing. Valdemar” is a particularly noteworthy example of the sublime, a psychological state in which one is overwhelmed by the magnitude of that which is perceived by the mind. Summary/Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie short story “The Facts in the Case of M. ![]() Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe the Sublime Jacques Lacan Immanuel Kant Slavoj Žižek Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. ![]()
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