I first read Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat when I was in 8th grade. However, I had no clue about what was going on and was just utterly clueless, and in class we just had a discussion on whether or not the narrator was insane or he was a cold-blooded murderer. Reading this story again with insight and knowledge on psychoanalysis, the story made a whole lot of sense now. This image represents the narrator’s most horrendous, inhumane act throughout the story, and the cat represents his torment, his source of insanity and the reasoning as to why he committed the acts he did. Throughout the course of the story, we see the huge role psychoanalysis plays in this text with concepts such as wishful impulse and the narrator acting upon it, repression, displacement, and literally so much more. There is usually a superstition on black cats and how they are usually bad luck; I guess this story is the perfect example for that.