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A 6 page paper. The writer uses some of the little of what is known about Poe's behaviors and events in his early life to discuss his personality development according to Erikson's theory. The Black Cat is the story used for examples. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the culture of his time and the influence it continues to have speaks for his talent. His work is so influential there are still celebrations to mark the date of
his birth (Cole, 2009). Further, mystery writing awards are named after this writer, which is a strong testament to his reputation. Analysts and critics report that Poe influenced Sir
Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes (Cole, 2009). Even many of todays horror stories and films have their basis in Poes work, specifically his phantasmagorias (Cole, 2009). Part of his influence
lies in the mystery of his life as well as the mystery of his death. Little is actually known about it. He was an enigma to his contemporaries. There are
legends that he lived in abject poverty and that he lived very comfortably. He was certainly born into poverty, at age 3, he became an orphan, and when he was
an adult, his foster father disinherited him (Cole, 2009). An any first-year psychology student can attest to, these devastating events of his early life would have had a dramatic impact
on the development of his personality. Today, it is common knowledge that poverty has a direct impact on learning and social development. We can consider either Freuds Stages of
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early experiences on personality development, this would be more appropriate. Erikson said that each
person must pass through each of eight stages of development (Slee, 2002). Each stage presents a crisis, which is a duality between opposites. Examples include: trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus
shame and doubt, initiative versus guild, industry versus inferiority (Slee, 2002). If a child is unable to complete the task successfully, they will have trouble as an adult, in fact,
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