Paranoid Personality Disorder of the Main Character Seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s A Tale Tell Heart
Keywords:
paranoid, personality disorder
paranoid, personality disorder
Abstract
This study aims at analyzing the paranoid disorder reflected in Poe’s A Tale Tell Heart. The researcher conducts a qualitative research by applying psychological approach. This study uses Freud’s theory to explain the personality of the main character. The finding of the research shows that the main character has a mental disorder in form of personality disorder.The main character perceived paranoid and eventually as paranoid sufferer, the main character commits to be a murderer of another character.
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Carroll, Andrew. Are You Looking at Me? Understanding and Managing Paranoid Personality Disorder. Advances in psychiatric treatment (2009), vol. 15, 40–48 doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.005421.
Cloninger, C.R. A Practical Way to Diagnosis Personality Disorder: A Proposal. Journal of Personality Disorders: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 99-108. 2000.
Devardhi, Julia. Application of Freudian Concepts to the Explication of Literary Texts: A Case Study of Walt Whitman’s “the Sleepers”. An International Multi-Disciplinary Journal Vol. 3 (1), 2009 ISSN 1994-9057 (Print) ISSN 2070-0083 (Online)
Gunderson, J.G., Shea, M.T., Skodol, A.E., McGlashan, T.H., Morey, L.C., Stout, R.L., Zanarini, M.C., Grilo, C.M., Oldham, J.M., Keller, M.B. (2000). The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: development, aims, design, and sample characteristics. Journal of Personality Disorders. 2000 Winter;14 (4):300-15.
Grohol, J.M. (2015). Personalitiy Disorders. PsychCentral.com.
Hall, Calvin S. A Primer of Freudian Psychology. USA: 1956, The New American Library.
Rizeanu, Steliana. Personality Disorder. Romanian Journal of Experimental Applied Psychology. VOL. 6, ISSUE 4 – www.rjeap.ro, 2016
Thurschwell, Pamela. Sigmund Freud. New York: 2009, Taylor & Francis E-Library.
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/132720/The_Tell-Tale_Heart_(Edgar_Allan_Poe_1843).pdf?sequence=1
Published
2020-09-25
How to Cite
WidiyantiA. (2020, September 25). Paranoid Personality Disorder of the Main Character Seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s A Tale Tell Heart. Metaphor, 3(1), 43-55. Retrieved from https://ojs.unsiq.ac.id/index.php/metaphor/article/view/1437
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