In the essay, “The Human Mind is a Wicked Dome,” the genre is writing a nonfiction essay. It is investigating how Freud psychoanalysis concepts discussed connect to Poe’s work, “The Black Cat” through his anonymous narrator.
This essay includes brief excerpts from Freud’s and Poe’s literature. Using a neutral tone in my analysis shows that I am not including my emotions but supporting my claim by using the evidence found in both literacies. I wrote this literacy essay via Office Word, and it’s split up into five paragraphs. Three of the main paragraphs introduce and briefly explain the concepts I am using to support my thesis. Being able to prove something that people don’t really recognize by reading it a few times inspired me to write this exploratory essay because for a moment I figured out a psychoanalysis concept within the story without being directed to the answer. By completing this, it helps me gain more confidence in my writing and not always receive feedback to the heart but to take it as a suggestion. Also, the purpose of writing this exploratory essay is to analyze and interpret a piece of literature and try to connect it to Freud’s ideas of psychoanalysis. Instead of trying to jam the ideas that the author wrote their stories with Freud in mind, all of my classmates should have convinced the audience that the narrator acted this way because, it is possible that they have dealt with concept numbers 1, 2 and 3. The potential audience for this essay was scholars peered review my essay and offered me excellent feedback. In addition, my two instructors who assigned this assignment.
While developing this essay, my viewpoint was primarily in the third person, with some first-person perspective floating around. I have done this to give readers details of how displacement works or what infantile sexuality means in Freudian terms. I believe the relationships between me, the audience, and the medium are that we all have general to intermediate knowledge about Freud and his lectures. So I don’t have to describe the concepts but to deeply analyze the chosen text. To have my essay get access to my audience, I submitted this essay on a word document, so it could be easily sharable to my peers and professors.
When I first explored and analyzed this image, as always, I did not understand where to start. My thesis was all over the place. At first, it was because I haven’t read “The Black Cat” completely without skimming through the whole story. I tried faking reading it by gathering enough small details from my classmates so I could sort of be involved in class discussions. As a result, I started to get more and more behind my work for both classes, not understanding the material as much. With the help of my tutor, I could get back on track and have motivation since I came up with a good thesis statement. However, based on peer reviews I had online and in-class, I have gotten contradictory responses on my claim. Some stated it was not effective/vague while others say it great. But I mixed up the two thesis statements I had and made it into one (which will probably get me a B or C).
