Comparing Edgar Allen Poes The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and

Comparing Edgar Allen Poes The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and The Tell-tale HeartThe small stories of Edgar Allen Poe demonstrate the authors ample gifts in the psychology of the mind, regardless of the fact he was decades ahead of Freud. Poes short stories are a good deal from the deranged and murderous point-of-view of the narrator, who often illustrates the inner-workings of his make psychology and the disintegration of the self brought about by mental disorders, aberrations, and other factors (anxiety, substance abuse, etc.). Perhaps two main factors omnipresent in the Poe psychological realm are substance abuse (i.e. alcoholism) and taphophobia (exaggerated fear of creation buried vital). In short stories like The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and The Tell-tale Heart, Poe constructs a psychological world where alcoholism and the fear of being buried alive are inextricably intertwined. So, too, the combination of them has an impact on the narrators and chara cters in his stories. Poes own alcoholism and taphophobia are inextricably intertwined in the psyche of his narrators and/or characters. In all three of these short stories, the narrator an... ...xacerbates the psychological symptoms being manifested imputable to taphophobia. Yet, these stories amply demonstrate Poes own preoccupation with alcohol and drinking as well as his neurosis with respect to being buried alive. References Anonymous. (2001). Criteria for centerfield Dependence Diagnosis. DSM-II-R, NIDA, Available http//www.nida.gov/DSR.html, 1-3. Anonymous. (2001). Lets talk facts about phobias. APA, Available http//www.guggenheim.yourmd.com, 1-4. Poe, E. A. (1966). Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. unused York, NY Doubleday & Company, Inc.