BERENICE

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Psychoanalyst issues about the short story

Nayana e Lilian

BERENICE THE SHORT STORY

Summary
Characters Diseases Berenices

teeth

LITERATURE AND REALITY?

Work

and author
characters x Real characters

Fictional

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston.

Got orphaned at age two Taken into the home of a childless couple

Married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm.

Pioneer the development of the short story Invented the format for the detective story as we know it today.

LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Freudian psychoanalysis: desire and symptom Key elements: father, mother, sexuality, death, shattered body, and the function of voice and look.

Lacans contribution

Theories about Berenice

FIRST THEORY - RKA TTH

Rka Tth is professor at Etvs University, Budapest, on

Department of English Studies on British Literature and Culture.

Poes names: Catulluss poem about Egnatius, who had such white teeth that he just smiled and smiled no matter when or where.

The male x The female: power and gender relations.

The gender shift The removal of Berenices teeth

Feminine repressed on unconscious of Egaeus

FREUDS VIEW OF THE HUMAN MIND

The Mental Iceberg

SIMPLIFYING A LOT:

SECOND THEORY MARIE BONAPARTE

author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. She analyses Poes works in terms of his childhood Egaeuss sphere as feminine male impotence Toothed vagina: vagina dentata Fantastic idea on Poes unconscious.
French

RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO THEORIES

The theory of power relations, By Rka Tth, lead us to understanding Egaeuss desire to possess the phallus, the symbol of male power.

Bonapartes concept of the vagina dentata serves to highlight Egaeuss fear of dangerous female sexuality.

These two sets of notions meet in the discussion of

fetishism. In Freudian terms, the fetish is a symbol of triumph over the threat of castration.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

TTH, Rka. The Cry from the T/Womb: Gender roles and aspects of
psychological domination in Edgar Allan Poes Berenice. ELTE BTK: seas3.elte.hu/angolpark

BONAPARTE, Marie. Interpretaes psicanalticas dos contos de Edgar Allan Poe. Revista da APPOA, seo Recordar, Refletir, Elaborar.. Porto Alegre.