What did Freud say of Poe?

"margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal;">In the preface to Marie

Bonaparte's psycho-analytic interpretation of Poe, Freud said the

following:

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"margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal;">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.