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Jane Eyre comes back to Rochester, when she hears Rochester``s voice which calls her name “Jane!, Jane!, Jane!”: She realizes there is something deeper in her mind which prevents the rejection of her love for him. Jane’s response to Rochester``s calling is related to her libidinal drive. Her drive can be examined through Lacan``s theory of drive. Drive, for Lacan, is closely related to the subject``s experience of pleasure or jouissance (enjoyment beyond the pleasure principle including orgasm). Drive, which belongs to the real, resists “the Law of desire” which is characteristics of the symbolic order. The partial drives (oral, anal, scopic, invocatory) originate in an erogenous zone, circle round the object, and then return to the erogenous zone. The satisfaction of the drive can only be attained in circling around the objects (breast, faces, gaze, voice). Applying Lacan``s ideas on drive, Jane mainly experiences oral and invocatory drives: Jane in her childhood enjoys “pleasure of the mouth” when her oral drive circles around “a mother``s breast”(Helen and Temple). Jane’s oral drive seeks not to reach a goal (a mother``s breast is lost), but to follow its circular path. Jane also has the satisfaction of invocatory drives, particularly in her relationships with her dead Uncle Reed and Rochester. She hears “a supernatural voice” of her dead Uncle Reed``s ghost and finds the enjoyment, pleasure in pain. Here, Jane``s ears, as in her hearing Rochester``s voice, become erogenous zones. (Hanbat National University)