Focusing on the urban elements in Chen Dongdong's poetry, this essay examines how contemporary poetry touches the core of enjoyment within the shiny, seductive urban life, in light of Lacan's theory on symbolic desire and real jouissance. I try to observe how the language of jouissance is expressed in a dramatic way, displaying the allegory of the clash between the eastern and the western cultures. The lyrical subject in Chen Dongdong's poetry can be seen as the Lacanian subject of the drive, i.e., the postmodern subject rushing forward, surrounding the traumatic real. The urban spectacle is then not the phantasm that the desire strives to grasp, but the unfathomable abyss of the real consistently interrogated under the drive