Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... (Poe 1975: 290). ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate