wild cat psychoanalysis

In Poe’s “The Black Cat” the narrator is clearly stating that his senses reject the evidence. Therefore you are already seeing here where his mind is burying the memory of his deed into his subconscious that is the superego is trying to protect him from his id. He is in a dream like state for he himself cannot believe his action were his own, this in Freudian terms would be that his id or natural instinct overriding his ego thus allowing him to perform such action. Next his ego is coming to play he is trying to make some sort of rationalization to find peace for his action, which was entirely unlike his usual self. He has taken himself outside of the incidents and is hoping to “reduce his phantasm to the common place”, again finding a normal reason for the proceedings that he has imagined took a state of disbelief. He mentioned the belief in cats being witches but clearly gives the idea that in no way is he blaming or trying to mention this as an answer or solution for his actions. Note though the cats name is Pluto another name for Hades god of the underworld in Greek mythology. Therefore in Freud theory it is argued that somewhere in his repressed mind the cat represents evil hence the name. Due to the trigger of the fiend alcohol his wild impulses and buried tendencies or thoughts the id began to emerge. So that his kind and loving ways that was developed through the interaction of the superego that is his conscience and the ego has somewhat been eradicated. The balance between his conscience and impulses are lost. This brings into focus, Freud’s theory of the ego seeming to harness the energy of the id in socially constructive ways by using the superego to moderate id behavior. In this case it can be argued that the superego was the dominant player throughout his life leading him to be of a much more docile nature and having overly humane characteristics than others, “My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my