Transformation and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale': A Jungian Discussion

Author / Editor
Brown, Eric D.

Title
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.