... parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". The main focus will be the traces of Freud's ideas on the "Life and Death Drives", "Guilt Complex", "Fixation", "Sublimation", "Dream work" and ... toward his adopted son Edgar and later in life left him in poverty and misery. Regarding these explanations it can also create an innate "Oedipus complex" in Poe himself later strengthened by the evidences in his writing as his portrayal of other women as evil and not having the ideality ... is well said that by every portrait a p...

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... novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward the parent of the same sex, and feelings of romantic love toward the parent of the ... this respect he is a responsible citizen of the symbolic realm, longing for Elizabeth rather than the mother" (Collings 282). Freud defined condensation as having several thoughts or persons ...

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