![]() ![]() In Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart,” the protagonist’s fear of the old man’s eye is what drove him to dismember him and put him underneath the floorboards (symbolizing repression). Using these theories in the analysis of a literary work, the reader must interpret what the author is trying to convey as well as what the characters are doing in the story, and although it is not an easy task, all students of critical theory have to know what they are looking for when studying a literary piece. Tyson describes the three: the Id is irrational and tends to want gratification the Superego works in direct opposition to the Id because it internalizes cultural taboos (murder, incest, stealing, etc.) and works to keep the ravenous Id at bay lastly the Ego is “the conscious Self that experiences the external world”. ![]() ![]() Another part of this theory which Freud developed comes from the concept of the Id, Ego, and Superego. These stages come from what a person is most afraid of and would work its way through most of their repressed memories to remind them of what could happen. Akin to the five stages of grief, the stages of repression follow a similar pattern, including “perception, selective memory, denial, avoidance, displacement, and projection”. ![]()
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