Many believe that the interrelationships between "I" and "not-self", the self and the other are the essential relationship for understanding fantasy literature. As Rosemary Jackson stated in her text Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion, the limitations of realistic novels come from their "rational, 'monological' world" (172), in which "otherness can only be known or represented if it is foreign, irrational” (172). ). She goes on to suggest that since the other cannot be accepted, it is “either completely rejected…or written in the form of a novel or fable” (172). The concept of "I" and "not-me" within fantasy literature is what has allowed this growing form of writing to explore the deep, dark, and sometimes vicious depths of the human psyche that we attempt to hide, while developing art. of the fantastic novel in modern literature. Dan Simmons Song of Kali relies heavily on the interrelationship between "I" and "not-I" in order to expand the reader's journey into the fantasy world he has created. Literary works such as Song of Kali, which utilize these ideas of self and otherness, appeal to the traditional and seemingly logical basis of Western culture and society in order to remain grounded in "the self." Through these literary techniques, Simmons' novel seeks to question the authenticity of what we call modernity as well as the inexplicable and untouchable worlds of taboo and magic. These areas are questioned in order to understand how they relate to the loss or discovery of “I” and “not-me”. Through the exploration of these ideas and themes, it is evident that the relationship between the "self" and otherness is essential in giving fantasy literature its...... middle of paper...... ion to a horror. story, it presents questions about the “self” and “other” as perceived by Luczak. The relationship between "I" and "not-I" is one of the many determining factors of great works of fantasy. This interaction and interrelation between the “self” and otherness should be seen as the symbiotic and necessary themes of fantasy literature. The questioning of "self" and otherness in Simmons' novel Song of Kali helps define the reality that was exposed at the beginning and so, in the fantasy world, it does so by clinging to a general lack of social conventions or taboos. . It neither accepts nor rejects the imminent process of modernity, but rather leaves room for the magical and the mysterious. Thus allowing the accepted “self” to be questioned, deconstructed and reconstructed in a new way by the “other »..”