1. Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe's Oval Portrait
Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "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 "Ideal Female complex" in this short story. ... First and foremost, the present article, wants to refer to the reason why Poe has written this short story and what has happened to him in his real life or what provoked the idea of writing "The...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate