Children are uncanny. Seeing the children grow is fascinating, but what one fails to comprehend; these creatures of nightmares have claimed many lives. There is none other to blame but the Creators who created the monstrosity. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok believed that “traumatic events or secrets could be passed on without coming to conscious attention," (Smith 146); thus, the children are embodiments of ones worst nightmares. I will argue that in The Black Cat, there exist, what Abraham and Torok suggest: The Phantom. Abraham describes the phantom as, “a formation of the unconscious that never been conscious…it passes…from the parent’s unconscious into the child’s,” (Smith 147) furthermore, elaborating the use of the analogy of ventriloquism
