1. Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe's Oval Portrait
... so much obsessed with the ideal female beauty and ideal woman in general . Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. His father also left the family. His feelings of motherlessness and his "Fixation" on this phase in his early childhood was the reason, involving him ... by Allans which were somehow rich and Mrs Allan was a wonderful mother for him but unlike her the husband denied enough attention 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" ... the ideality of h...
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