The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe: The Anguish and the Ominous
This paper presents an analysis from a psychoanalytic perspective of the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story is analyzed based on Freud's ideas about anxiety and the uncanny; this is done without pretending a full understanding of both the reference texts...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/6021 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ensayospedagogicos/article/view/6021 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | psicoanálisis literatura Poe Freud ominoso angustia psychoanalysis literature uncanny anxiety |
| Summary: | This paper presents an analysis from a psychoanalytic perspective of the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story is analyzed based on Freud's ideas about anxiety and the uncanny; this is done without pretending a full understanding of both the reference texts as well as the Poe's short story. In these texts, there are dark and mysterious spaces, and points that bother and are actually of interest in this analysis. |
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