A Psychoanalytic Reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.256How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Poe; detective fiction; psychoanalytic; structural theory; doubling; homosexual; psychology

Abstract

Psychoanalytic criticism is an important branch of literary criticism that applies theories of psychology to the study of literature. The present paper attempts to analyze Poe's detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from a psychoanalytic perspective. Poe's skillful characterization and employment of the double motif is intensively discussed. It also deserves noting that the story conveys sensitive messages and exerts influence on readers’ psychology.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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