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【Abstract】“The Black Cat” is one of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short stories about the psychology of guilt and madness. Previous study mainly focuses on the madness， self-hatred and self-destructiveness in the story. While the relation between id and superego is rarely researched. This paper concentrates on the analysis of the war between id and superego in “The Black Cat”. The study finds out that the war between the id and the super-ego is evident throughout the whole story and in the story there are three battles between id and superego.
【Key words】“The Black Cat”; id; superego
【作者簡介】黎萍（1992.07-），女，汉族，贵州黔西人，贵州医科大学外国语学院教师，助教，硕士研究生，研究方向：语言学。
1. Introduction
Published in 1843， Edgar Allen Poe’s “The black cat” remains one of his mystifying tales. In the story， a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable， but eventually breaks down and reveals himself， impelled by a nagging reminder of his madness. “The black cat” is distinctive among his tales in being one of very few that concerns a narrator who is an alcoholic. The narrator’s motive for murdering his wife has elicited much speculation from critics. Poe is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole， and he is one of the country’s earliest practitioners of short stories. Writers and critics analyze Poe’s works continuously in different perspectives. In the twentieth century， with the introduction of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory， scholars started to combine Poe’s works closely with his life and character. “The Black Cat” is one of Poe’s famous short stories about the psychology of guilt and madness. Previous scholars concentrate on the madness， self-hatred and self-destructiveness in the story， the correlation between id and superego is rarely discussed. So this paper focuses on analyzing id and superego in “The Black Cat”.
2. Freudian Theory of id and superego
For Freud， the superego， id and ego are closely related to each other.
【Key words】“The Black Cat”; id; superego
【作者簡介】黎萍（1992.07-），女，汉族，贵州黔西人，贵州医科大学外国语学院教师，助教，硕士研究生，研究方向：语言学。
1. Introduction
Published in 1843， Edgar Allen Poe’s “The black cat” remains one of his mystifying tales. In the story， a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable， but eventually breaks down and reveals himself， impelled by a nagging reminder of his madness. “The black cat” is distinctive among his tales in being one of very few that concerns a narrator who is an alcoholic. The narrator’s motive for murdering his wife has elicited much speculation from critics. Poe is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole， and he is one of the country’s earliest practitioners of short stories. Writers and critics analyze Poe’s works continuously in different perspectives. In the twentieth century， with the introduction of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory， scholars started to combine Poe’s works closely with his life and character. “The Black Cat” is one of Poe’s famous short stories about the psychology of guilt and madness. Previous scholars concentrate on the madness， self-hatred and self-destructiveness in the story， the correlation between id and superego is rarely discussed. So this paper focuses on analyzing id and superego in “The Black Cat”.
2. Freudian Theory of id and superego
For Freud， the superego， id and ego are closely related to each other.