Lecture Notes on "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe.

"Tell Tale Heart" By Edgar Allen Poe
Lecture Notes - Psychoanalytic Approach
The story involves the Narrator and Narratee. It is being told to someone who thinks this person is mad. Someone who is approaching this person is expecting to deal with a madman (prison officer etc). The eye resembles a vulture. He took the life of the old man to relieve himself of the eye. The eye is an uncanny object. It is a blind eye that sees. The eye is linked to the super-ego, and it is under survellience. The eye splits off from the old man.
Bedroom: fancied infliction of pain. The Narrator ide…