Entre os estilhaços do eu e os fragmentos persecutórios do seio

paragens esquizo-paranoides na poética de Edgar Allan Poe

Abstract

We will go through the deepest and darkest recesses of the short story Morela (1835), written by the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, in an attempt to probe the love story between the autodiegetic narrator and this friend, Morela. An atmosphere of mystery hovers over the union of both, as the union was not motivated by love, but by the blossoming of a feeling, metaphorically, called flames that “were not those of Eros”. The absence of love and the flowering of a strange feeling that torments the narrator's spirit loom, indeed, ignoble and execrable environment. As a result of the tortuous and bizarre idyll between the narrator and Morela, a daughter is born – with images, traits and mannerisms identical to her mother's. Morela dies, but leaves her atrocious heir. For this purpose, Melanie Klein's writings are used, with regard to her theoretical constructs of the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position.