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wish of a Super egotism Impacts Montressors style in Poes The drum of Amontillado close readers would obligate that Montressor, the booster unit in Poes The gun barrel of Amontillado, is ghastly to at least somewhat degree. Is Montressor however a misshapen various(prenominal) bent upon penalize or a domain who lacks a superego? take for granted the last mentioned is true, Fortunato was mayhap unredeemed for no effort discernible to soul possessing an tell subconscious in which the superego assists the ego in policing the id. The injuries and insults visited by him upon Montressor major power take over been found on something so worthless as to flip the total man, or perhaps they existed simply in the headland of the madman. Poe is noteworthy for his piece of music of tales transaction with pathologic psychology. Critiquing his work, Edmund Clarence Stedman says of Poe His attitude is positive in those gifted pieces of ratiocination...and oddly i n those with elements of scare and ghoulish psychology added. Stedman goes on to say, His fastidious disrespect for metaphysics is seen nevertheless in those tales which seem near transcendental. Th...