Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe

• Other Authors: Del Guercio, Gerardo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Western Continental Europe; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; 21st century; Edgar Allan Poe; Criminal psychology; The Unconscious; Psychoanalysis; Narrative
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This collection offers six critical essays on the topic of psychology in Edgar Allan Poe. It came together as a response to a visible absence of this subject in recent scholarship. The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe as one of the pioneers in psychology, who often anticipated major theoretical trends and ideas in psychology in his incessant explorations of the relationship between behavior and the psyche. Scrutinizing serial killer narratives, obsessive narratives through Jungian unconscious, Lacanian Das Ding, doppelg ängers, intersubjectivity, and the interrelationship between the material world and imaginative faculties, the essays reveal the richness and the complexity of Poe's work and its pertinence to contemporary culture.