On the subject of contemporary poetics, Kellogg discusses desire in the works of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud. Unlike Lacan, Freud never uses desire as a central theoretical concept. Lacan's desir substitutes for the Freudian Wunsch, that is, a desire for what can never be known, what Lacan calls “the Other.” This Hegelian influence upon Lacan sees desire directed toward recognition, and self-consciousness achieving its satisfaction only in another self. Since one recognizes oneself through an intersubjective relationship with the other, the Other is the negative space of misrecognition. While the subject enters the signifying chain through recognition of and by the Other, the subject is forever barred from knowledge of the Other. Juliet Flower MacCannell sees the Lacanian notion of desire as recognition, as maintaining the history of the oppression of women because it is still phallocentric. Jorie Graham's poetry deploys the effects of this desire.