الاكاديمية للدراسات الاجتماعية و الانسانية
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 205-211
2024-01-23
Identity Transformation In Edgar Allan Poe’s “the Black Cat”
Authors : Elkateb Nesrine . Amara Naimi .
Abstract
Identity has been a major subject of criticism for many years. Scholars had tackled the issue of identity from different angles, as it merges into a variety of disciplines and psychology is no exception. In psychology, however, identity is not examined as simple as in other fields. It is rather a complex question, for the human mind is an intricate synthesis that requires careful analysis and vigorous study. The current paper sheds light on the issue of psychological identity and the factors to its transformation. The study discusses the term identity and its components in psychoanalysis. The crux of this research is to scrutinize the mechanism of identity transformation based on Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. It also takes Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” as an illustration of this transformation. The narrator in this gothic short story is considered as an example of when psychological identity transforms and swings between the edges of sanity and insanity.
Keywords
Edgar Allan Poe ; Identity ; Psychoanalysis ; The Black Cat ; Transformation
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