Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe’s a Tell Tale Heart

A Freudian Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe As an esteemed psychologist analyzing this accused manslayer, I acquire found a few key pieces of evidence that ultimately lead me to the decision that the murderer is in fact mad and I recomm close mental rehabilitation as well as jail sentence as a proper penalty for the crime committed. Although, he claims he tolerate tell the night of the murder healthily and calmly it is not proof enough to disregard his insanity.The murderer insists that he loved the old man which I desire is undoubtedly true. As far as my knowledge goes he was stuck in a paradox of love and hate. With that said I know that people sometimes tend to harm the people they love. He claims he was not after the old man by any greedy or vengeful means, He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire By saying this, he makes it clear that he has eliminated any springs that comm lock up inspire a murderer.Instead h e describes his obsession with the old mans, vulture eye as what makes him tick. To everyone except the murderer, the obsession with the old mans blue eye is unexplainable. The only indication given is that the eye makes his blood run cold so much so that he thought the only just way to eliminate this problem was to end the old mans life all together. Additionally, when he exclaims his plans to rid himself of the eye forever, subconsciously he wants to rid the old man of the eye because it is evil.However, it is apparent that the murderer does not comprehend that he cannot isolate the man from his eye, and that if he tries he will possess killed the man too not just the eye. In his mind, he has separated the mans identity, which is pleasant and agreeable, from his vulture eye, which is described as evil and eerie. By doing so, the murderer has now justified to himself his capability of murdering the old man. Ultimately, the obsession with the vulture eye is irrational and is by no means a reasonable motive to murder an innocent man.The murderers heightened sensitivity to sound is yet another piece of evidence that proves his insanity. He says, Above all the sense of audience acute. I heard all things in heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. What that means to him, we may not know, but to a listener he is just proving himself crazy. He first encounters the loud sound of the old mans beating heart while he is still alive in his bed on the night of the murder, I knew that sound well too.It was the beating of the old mans heart. It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. Not only is this testimony of paranoia, it also disproves his original claim he is not insane, because a sound that cant be heard from a distance at all was driving his rage to attack the old man. Then again at the end of his story, he claims he heard the sound of the beating heart and it drove him to admit to the crime, while the police were investigating the old mans house. The doughnut became more distinct I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling but it continued and gained definitiveness until, at length, I found that the noise was non within my ears. This is a clear display of the murderers extreme guilt and paranoia. Not only do I firmly believe this murderer should be sentenced to many years jail for the crime he committed, it is in his best interest to regain his sanity if possible through some psychological therapy program.