Definition of Terms INTRODUCTION

enigmatic gaze of the other. ” Ki, Magdalen Wing-Chi, 2008:2. It can be seen that Ki’s study focused on the Ego aspect of the narrator. Furthermore, Ki also stated that the action of the narrator influenced by the act of the EgoEvil. Another related study is a study written by Andrea Schaumlö ffel 2010. The point of this study is to analyze the rhetorical structure and to explain the rhetorical devices of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” in the narrator’s confession. “On the basis of the interpretations above, we can see that “The Tell- Tale Heart” gives much leeway for exegesis. Interestingly enough, this full range of well-founded views can only be possible because of the lack of information: We do not know who the narrator is, or in which relationship he or she stands with the old man, neither where and how they exactly live, nor why this tale is actually told.” Schaumlöffel, 2010: 9 According to the quotation above it can be seen that Andrea Schaumlö ffel 2010 concludes that the object of study gives too much room for another interpretation and concludes that this happens because of the story’s lack of information. Meanwhile, the position of this study is to elaborate the motive of the murder from the dynamic of the narrator’s unconscious mind. Therefore, the elaboration of the motive is able to give a dif ferent perspective about Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” for future studies.

B. Review of Related Theories

1. Relation between Psychology and Literature

According to Eagleton 1996, there are four kinds of psychoanalytical literary criticisms depends on the matters. First is the matter of the author of the work, second is to the work’s contents, the third is the matter of the work’s formal construction, and lastly the matter of the reader. The first two are the most common, and the most problematic ways because analyzing the author tends to be more speculative. Moreover, if the first two is used, the main problem is to highlight between the author’s intentions with the relevance of the literary work. Eagleton, 1996: 155 However, the analysis of the author is dismissed in this study. In this study the goal of the analysis is the contents of the works includes character’s characteristics and symbols. It is, according to Eagleton, giving responses to the characters’s motivations or the relevancies of the psychoanalytical of a certain event. To be more convincing, Eagleton’s explanation can be seen in this passage; “Psychoanalytical criticisms, in other words, can do more than hunt the phallic symbols: it can tell us something about how literary texts are actually formed, and reveal something of the meaning of that formation.” Eagleton, 1996:155. From the passage above, the main aspects of the relation between psychology and literature can be seen. The main goal is to see something within the works by using symbols, and other instruments of analysis. The relation between