How Did Writers Such as Edgar Allen Poe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,and Herman

question 145

Essay

How did writers such as Edgar Allen Poe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,and Herman Melville dissent from some of the prevailing currents of nineteenth century American life? Did their relative isolation and critical perspective help or hinder their literary art?

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Definitions:

Repressed Material

Memories, thoughts, or impulses unconsciously held out of awareness due to their threatening nature.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach and theory of mental illness that attributes thoughts and behaviors to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.

Countertransference

In psychotherapy, it refers to the emotions and projections that the therapist may feel towards the patient.