Transformation and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale': A Jungian Discussion
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Eric D.
Transformation and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale': A Jungian Discussion
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 303-16.
- Description
- The WBT and its analogues have in common the archetype of transformation from ugly age to beautiful and fertile youthfulness. The psychic transformation of unconsciousness to consciousness, a phenomenon central to human individual and collective cultural development, is enacted via this archetypal form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.