Aleksandra Vujovic 
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jungian Darkness. Shadow and Anima in Poe’s tales 

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Psychology – Miscellaneous, grade: A, , course: American Literature, language: English, abstract: A short comparison of Poe and Jung in terms of their similar ideas, as well as Poe’s representations of Anima and Shadow.

The testament of Poe as a man of unique genius who inspires and intrigues not just the readers, but his fellow poets is confirmed by the interest of some literary giants in him, Baudelaire, Eliot, Lawrence, to name only a few. In his famous essay From Poe to Valery, Eliot recognized “Poe’s peculiar originality as a poet. (…) Poe is both the reductio ad absurdum and the artistic perfection of this [Romantic] movement” , says Eliot and continues to point out the intellectual merits of Poe, i.e., his originality, not just as a critic but as a poet as well by stating that “no poetry of feeling is further from sensuality or even sensuousness.”