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In the preface to Marie Bonaparte's psycho-analytic interpretation of Poe, Freud said the following:

Thanks to her interpretative effort we now realize how many of the characteristics of Poe's works were conditioned by his personality, and can see how that personality derived from intense emotional fixations and painful infantile experiences. Investigations such as this do not claim to explain creative genius, but they do reveal the factors which awaken it and the sort of subject matter it is destined to choose.. . . a great writer of a pathological type.

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