Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

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

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Chengcheng Song
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Chengcheng Song
Available Online July 2019.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-752-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.256How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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