Lack of a Superego Impacts Montressors Behavior in Poes The Cask of A

privation of a Super self Impacts Montressors Behavior in Poes The Cask of Amontillado Most readers would agree that Montressor, the sponsor in Poes The Cask of Amontillado, is mad to at least some degree. Is Montressor all if a twisted individual bent upon revenge or a man who lacks a superego? Assuming the latter is true, Fortunato was perhaps doomed for no reason discernable to someone possessing an ordered subconscious in which the superego assists the ego in policing the id. The injuries and insults visited by him upon Montressor might have been based on something so trivial as to confound the average man, or perhaps they existed only in the mind of the madman. Poe is renowned for his authorship of tales dealing with pathological psychology. Critiquing his work, Edmund Clarence Stedman says of Poe His bearing is unquestionable in those clever pieces of ratiocination...and especially in those with elements of terror and morbid psychology added. Stedman goes on to say, His a rtistic contempt for metaphysics is seen even in those tales which appear most transcendental. Th...