In Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” Browning shows the use of Sigmmund Freud’s theory of fear of abandonment though his main character and his lover. The main character is essentially trying to control time with death ;his fear of death comes from fear of abandonment.Half way through the text the main character decides to kill his lover for the sake of preserving/ freezing her love for him. Although the text does not mention the fact that someone had abandoned him previously, his actions have justified Freud’s theory that one’s actions represent the repressed memory stored in the unconscious. By using this particular theory to analyze this text I was able to understand that in order for the main character to prevent his lover from leaving him, changing his negative environment into a positive one, and give up her purity, his final decision is to kill her. By killing her he ultimately is able to perpetuate his own misery by continuing the cycle. In addition to, seeing that she is dead he is now able to control her body and keep their love “everlasting” which is something he may have failed to do with a significant individual in his past, maybe his mother perhaps. Lastly, he does show some form on the conscious mind at the end when he states “And all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!” This shows that he felt some form of guilt. If he did not believe that God would do anything to punish his actions he would not have mentioned God, thus, this is his conscious mind acknowledging the tragic deed.