Psychoanalytic Analysis
f LiterA Psychoanalytic Reflection to Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Under Poe’s Pen, readers can find breath-taking beauties, most attractive sceneries and serviceable romantic images. Reading Poe’s works is a way to enjoy beauty as well as to bear the torture of great lose and ghostly horror because the shadow of death almost penetrates all of these described beauties. Dreamlike sceneries appeared in his work here and there too. Poe’s writing style has made him be a controversial figure in the literature field for many years. What Poe wrote down is not only the reflection of the real-world objects but also imaging ones that were only existed in Poe’s mental world. This essay will use the Topographic Model of Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to analyze Poe’s poem The Raven and help reader to learn more clearly about the poem.
Freudian criticism is concerned with the quest for and discovery of connections between the artists themselves and what they actually create. As far as literature is concerned it analyses characters “invented” by authors, the language they use and what is known as “Freudian imagery”. Thus, in the Freudian method a literary character is treated as if a living human being, whereas, for example, in the method of Jacques Lacan literature is seen as “symptom” of the writer. Topographic Model is one of Freud’s critic methods. In an earlier version of this model, Freud separated the human psyche into three parts: the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. And the later version of this model is called tripartite model that divides the psyche into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the irrational, instinctual, unknown, unconscious part of the psyche, which contains our secret desires, our darkest wishes and our most intense fears. The id wishes only to fulfill the urges of the pleasure principle. And it houses the libido, the source of all our psychosexual desire and all our psychic energy. The ego is
Under Poe’s Pen, readers can find breath-taking beauties, most attractive sceneries and serviceable romantic images. Reading Poe’s works is a way to enjoy beauty as well as to bear the torture of great lose and ghostly horror because the shadow of death almost penetrates all of these described beauties. Dreamlike sceneries appeared in his work here and there too. Poe’s writing style has made him be a controversial figure in the literature field for many years. What Poe wrote down is not only the reflection of the real-world objects but also imaging ones that were only existed in Poe’s mental world. This essay will use the Topographic Model of Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to analyze Poe’s poem The Raven and help reader to learn more clearly about the poem.
Freudian criticism is concerned with the quest for and discovery of connections between the artists themselves and what they actually create. As far as literature is concerned it analyses characters “invented” by authors, the language they use and what is known as “Freudian imagery”. Thus, in the Freudian method a literary character is treated as if a living human being, whereas, for example, in the method of Jacques Lacan literature is seen as “symptom” of the writer. Topographic Model is one of Freud’s critic methods. In an earlier version of this model, Freud separated the human psyche into three parts: the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. And the later version of this model is called tripartite model that divides the psyche into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the irrational, instinctual, unknown, unconscious part of the psyche, which contains our secret desires, our darkest wishes and our most intense fears. The id wishes only to fulfill the urges of the pleasure principle. And it houses the libido, the source of all our psychosexual desire and all our psychic energy. The ego is