声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Introduction to The Tell-tale Heart
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Thesis Organization
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Introduction to Allan Poe and His Works
2.2 Studies on Allan Poe Abroad and in China
2.2.1 Studies on Allan Poe Abroad
2.2.2 Studies on Allan Poe in China
3.3 Studies on The Tell-tale Heart Abroad and in China
3.3.1 Studies OH The Tell-tale Heart Abroad
3.3.2 Studies on The Tell-tale Heart in China
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework
3.1 Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
3.2 Psychoanalytic Theory
3.2.1 The Unconscious
3.2.2 The Structural Model of Personality
3.2.3 The Stages of Psychosexual Development
Chapter Four Study of The Tell-tale Heart Based on Psychoanalysis
4.1 Root for the Narrator’s Id from the Perspective of Psychosexual Development
4.1.1 The Narrator’s Childhood
4.1.2 The Narrator’s Teenage
4.1.3 The Narrator’s Adulthood
4.2 Murder Accompanied by Incessant Interaction between Narrator’s Id and his Ego
4.2.1 Vulture Eye and Hysteric Narrator
4.2.2 Closed Eye and Seven Quiet Nights
4.2.3 Open Eye and the Murder on the Eighth Night
4.3 Tell-tale Heart Awakened by Superego
4.3.1 The Omen of Telling the Secret
4.3.2 Critical Superego
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Summary
5.1.1 Summary of Poe’s Philosophical Viewpoints
5.1.2 The Social Implications of the Tale
5.2 Limitations of the Study
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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