"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 …showed first 75 words of 217 total…

…showed last 75 words of 217 total…senses. This is the classic structure of paranoia. The Old man is killed with the bed. Oediple scenarios: The Old man is killed and the corpse is buried under the floor - boards. The police come and he confesses, no Old man is found. WAS THERE EVER AN OLD MAN? The old man is a super-ego figure, and the story is about representation of a psychic predicament. For example...the eye represents the third eye.