The American writer Sue Grafton once said: “We all need to look into the dark side of our nature: that is where the energy, the passion, lies. People are afraid of it because it holds back pieces of us that we are busy denying. His words could not represent the novel Wuthering Heights more perfectly. Written by Emily Brontë, the novel explores the idea of ​​"dark sides" and the struggle within a person who cannot choose between their dark side and their light side. In the novel, this struggle takes shape through three separate characters, who, through Freudian analysis, can be argued as three parts of a single personality. Sigmund Freud's Second Topography of the Human Mind is an accurate map of the relationship between three key figures in the novel: Heathcliff, Edgar, and Catherine. This map is made up of three parts, the Id, the Superego and the Ego. The id focuses on all basic desires, the superego revolves around morality, and the ego represents the mediator between the two. To fully understand the relationship between these three key characters, it is important to understand their stories. In the most basic explanation, the story is about Catherine marrying Edgar Linton because of his high status, instead of marrying Heathcliff, the abandoned orphan who is described as the other half of her soul. Wuthering Heights explores the complex relationship between these characters created by a woman who must choose between two men; one who is loyal, pleasant and moral and one who is exciting, dangerous and pushing the limits of morality. A consistent theme of psychoanalytic theory is “the existence of opposing emotions and impulses” (Thruschwell p). Freud's second topic serves as a psychological model for this complex relationship... middle of paper... between these three important characters. They are essentially three elements of a single personality, evident through their individual traits and interactions with each other. Works Cited Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. Web. .Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and the Id. Trans. Joan Rivière, ed. James Strachey. New York:Norton, 1960. Web.Simms, Karl. "Sigmund Freud." Routledge Critical Thinkers. (2002): 46. Web. 22 February 2012. .Thurschwell, Pamela. "Chapter 5: Freud's Maps of the Mind." Routledge Critical Thinkers. (2000): 79-93. Press. .