Illusion and Reality: Psychological Truth in Chaucer's Portrait of January

Author / Editor
Frost, Cheryl.

Title
Illusion and Reality: Psychological Truth in Chaucer's Portrait of January

Published
Literature in North Queensland, Australia (James Cook University, North Queensland) 5.1 (1976): 37-45.

Description
Jungian psychological analysis of the character of January, arguing that he shows the characteristics of the introverted type--capacity for abstraction, extreme subjectivity, and a resultant poor grasp of the outside world. January has trouble separating illusion and reality.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.