Psychology in Edgar Allan PoeGerardo Del Guercio 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, doppelgängers, 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. With contributions by Gerardo Del Guercio, Phillip Grayson, Sean J. Kelly, Rachel McCoppin, Tatiana Prorokova, and Karen J. Renner. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Poe and the Contemporary Serial Killer Narrative | 13 |
Unwanted Impulses and Obsession in Poe | 41 |
The Figure of Das Ding in Poes The Raven | 67 |
The Doppelgänger Psychology and Poe | 101 |
The Ethics of Vision in The TellTale Heart | 121 |
Masculinity and Metaphysics from ETA Hoffmann to Edgar Allan Poe | 139 |
About the Contributors | 163 |