Poe's fiction was made the target of relentless excursions by psychoanalysts. The present analysis, which endeavours to articulate the operational Lacanian concepts onto Poe's fiction aims to achieve a "liberating" of the meaning from the text, an enterprise equal to a transvaluation of the textual psychical values, hence constituting itself in a necessary linkage between the world of the unconscious entrapped within the text and a coherent comprehension of it.