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Psychological Analysis of Characterization in The Fall of the House of Usher Abstract: The Fall of the House of Usher is one of the famous gothic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. And this story has portrayed three main characters——“I”, Roderick Usher, and lady Madeline. They all have distinct personalities. From the perspective of psychology, this paper will employ Freud’s personality structure system to analyze the characterization in The Fall of the House of Usher.Keyword: Edgar Allan Poe; The Fall of the House of Usher; characterization; personality structure system摘要：《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是埃德加·爱伦·坡著名的哥特短篇小说之一。小说刻画了三个主要人物——“我”，罗德瑞克·厄舍，玛德琳小姐，其性格截然不同。本文将从心理学的视角，运用弗洛伊德的人格系统理论对《厄舍古屋的倒塌》中的主要人物性格描写进行分析。关键词：埃德加·爱伦·坡；《厄舍古屋的倒塌》；人物刻画；人格系统理论 Edgar Allan Poe is widely regarded as a central figure of HYPERLINK /wiki/Romanticism \o Romanticism Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the countrys earliest practitioners of the short story.He is best known for his poetry and tales of Gothic elements and mystery. And The Fall of the House of Usher is one of those Gothic stories. And obviously it has been always studied as a Gothic story. Most of papers are written about its Gothic characters, environment, and architecture. However, this paper will employ a new way to interpret this Gothic story. In this story, there are three main characters——the narrator “I”, Roderick Usher, and his sister lady Madeline. And those three people have deeply connected relations. And in this paper, it will employ Freud’s personality structure theory to separately analyze those three characters’ symbolic meanings and then explain their connections. In Freud’s personality structure theory, he assigns people’s mental processes into three psychic zones: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, in short, the source of all our aggressions and desires. It is lawless, asocial and amoral. Its function is to gratify our instincts for pleasure without regard for social