Social And Psychological Disorder In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737750164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social and Psychological Disorder in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays that examine psychological disorders featured in the works of Edgar Allan Poe discussing such topics as obsession, sadism, and motiveless murder.

Author : Gerardo Del Guercio
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832549404
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe written by Gerardo Del Guercio and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John A. Kaufhold
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595482139
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neuroses of Edgar Allan Poe written by John A. Kaufhold and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 658593413X
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226709655
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theaters of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.

Author : John Wooster Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edgar A. Poe, a Psychopathic Study written by John Wooster Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dustin Runkel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668695601
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insanity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" written by Dustin Runkel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In this paper, Poe’s popular short story "The Black Cat" (1843) will be analysed and interpreted from a psychoanalytic point of view. In order to make Poe’s attitude towards the human psyche graspable, the protagonist’s mental disorder(s) will be examined. In fact, the ambiguous narrative could – of course – be understood as the story of a virtuous man who suffers from the abyss of alcoholism. From this perspective, the story becomes the tale of woe that focuses on the social, economical and psychological consequences of alcohol dependency for the narrator loses his social environment, sinks into poverty, drifts towards sin, and starts to suffer from a dissociated personality. However, it seems as if the teller’s immoral acts were motivated by other forces than the influence of intoxication. The brutish narrator himself subsumes the destructive powers that guide (and transform) him under the expression “the spirit of perverseness”. Therefore, in this essay, it will be scrutinised whether alcoholism is the primary reason for the narrator being inclined to commit foul deeds or rather an external intensification of already existing homicidal tendencies.

Author : Brett Zimmerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433184932
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist written by Brett Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Locating Poe firmly within his Zeitgeist vis-à-vis the science and pseudoscience of the early nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist: A Companion Anthology simultaneously looks back from the 1830s and 40s (when his literary career was at its height) to eighteenth-century theories and sources of information on mental illness, as well as forward to our own time to demonstrate how Poe's dramatizations of psychological diseases occasionally anticipate modern nosological classifications and twenty-first-century forensic research. This interdisciplinary collection is a companion to its predecessor, Zimmerman's Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist (2019); it gathers the most important essays by authors-Hungerford, Stauffer, Stern, Bynum, Cleman, Hester and Segir, Phillips, Shackelford, Scheckel, Lloyd-Smith, Whipple, Butler, Uba, Walker, Zimmerman-who employ historicist and history-of-ideas methodologies. Topics include Poe's use of and eventual disillusionment with phrenology; his attitude toward the controversial "moral treatment" of the insane as well as the "insanity defense" and its connection with the new theory of "moral insanity"; the possible sources of his knowledge of theories of mind, psychopathology and related therapies; his evolution as an amateur psychologist; the connection between physiological sickness and mental distress (the psychosomatic); and the ways in which the psychological profiles of his homicidal characters look forward to modern serial killers. This companion anthology represents a significant addition to Poe scholarship and will be of interest not only to Poe specialists but also to students, teachers, and any intelligent reader interested in the history of ideas and the intersection between literature and "mental philosophy.""--

Author : Thomas M. Disch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684859785
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of written by Thomas M. Disch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-07-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary history.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140390551
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedies and Satires written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1987 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: