A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of The Black Cat 以弗洛伊德精神分析理论分析《黑猫》中的叙述者.docVIP

以弗洛伊德精神分析理论分析《黑猫》中的叙述者 摘要：埃德加·爱伦·坡是美国作家中最独特的一位，以悬疑、惊悚小说最负盛名。他的恐怖故事极力挑战理性的界限，探索生命与死亡、梦境与现实、清醒与癫狂的晦暗不明的交界地带。《黑猫》是这些恐怖小说中最为经典的一部作品，它同时也揭露了人类精神层次的黑暗面。本论文的作者认为人性中有种罪恶的潜意识。所以，本论文旨在通过弗洛伊德的精神分析理论来分析《黑猫》中主人公的性格，从而帮助我们更容易地理解坡的其他作品和他的创作理念。 关键词：埃德加·爱伦·坡; 弗洛伊德的精神分析; 黑猫  Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis 3 2.1 Overview 3 2.2 The Structural Model of Personality 4 Chapter 3 A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of The Black Cat 5 3.1 Ego of the Narrator 5 3.2 Id of the Narrator 6 3.3 Superego of the Narrator 7 Chapter 4 Conclusion 9 Bibliography 10 Acknowledgements 11  Chapter 1 Introduction Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1809, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, in October 1849, Edgar Allan Poe lived only forty years in this world, but his name brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart” , “The Raven”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, and he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. Poe’s short stories are abounded with bloody violence, murder and even supernatural events. And the places where the stories occur are usually dreary and gloomy castles, bleak cellars or churches, and thrilling grave yards. All these are the recurrent and indispensable elements in establishing Poe’s prevalent terror, which is strong enough to shake readers’ interior feelings. Among these stories, Poe can not stop interpreting his “death wish”. “Death” has become one of his constant themes, especially t