The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe: The Anguish and the Ominous

Authors

  • Isabel Cristina Bolaños Villalobos Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
  • Gabriela Cerdas Ramírez Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
  • Jimmy Ramírez Acosta Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.7-1.5

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, literature, Poe, Freud, uncanny, anxiety

Abstract

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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Published

2012-07-06

How to Cite

Bolaños Villalobos, I. C., Cerdas Ramírez, G., & Ramírez Acosta, J. (2012). The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe: The Anguish and the Ominous. Ensayos Pedagógicos Journal, 7(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.7-1.5

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2012): January-June

Section

Essays

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How to Cite

Bolaños Villalobos, I. C., Cerdas Ramírez, G., & Ramírez Acosta, J. (2012). The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe: The Anguish and the Ominous. Ensayos Pedagógicos Journal, 7(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.7-1.5

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