The Voice of An Unsound Mind: A Psychological Analysis on Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

In Mathematics there are two types of numbers known as ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Both of them are addressed collectively as ‘Complex numbers’. Father of modern psychology Sigmund Freud applied this term to address the collection of human emotions, buried or unstructured memories and many more various personalities of a mind. In this case, this research article is about to focus on the craving voice of an unsound mind of an unnamed narrator from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart. Humans have evolved so far from uncivilized to civilized ones. But the core emotions have never adapted to this so-called evolved society. Always some conflicts exist such as Man vs Man, Man vs Wild, and Man vs his psyche. It might take another million years to attain the perfect psyche like the holy angels and the son of god. One of the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe talks about the imperfect psyche of a person who assumes himself as a man of perfect sanity. For a weird reason, his ‘Id’ is driving him to perform a cold-blooded murder. This paper analyses the psychological elements behind the structure of that insane character based on ‘Psychodynamic theory’ which is very familiar from the Freudian school. It is a great wonder how Poe observed the force of ‘Id’, ‘Ego’ and ‘Super ego’ in this short story before Sigmund Freud published his works based on psychoanalysis