The Life and Works of E. A. Poe: a Psychoanalytic Interpretation  

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The Life and Works of E. A. Poe: a Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1933) is a psychoanalytic reading of the work of Edgar Allan Poe written by Princess Marie Bonaparte.

Her thesis is that Poe's art was the product of neurosis. According to Bonaparte, Poe was a "repressed sado-masochist and necrophilist" (299). Bonaparte also claimed that Poe was impotent: "It was opium, Hervey Allen claims, which made Poe sexually impotent, since his conduct with Mary Devereaux was still entirely normal." (85)

René Laforgue, had published The Defeat of Baudelaire: A Psychoanalytical Study of the Neurosis of Charles Baudelaire with the same publisher [1].

References

Bonaparte, Marie. (1949). The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, a psycho-analytic interpretation (John Rodker, Trans.). London: Imago. (Original work published 1933)



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