Illusion and Reality: Psychological Truth in Chaucer's Portrait of January
- Author / Editor
- Frost, Cheryl.
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.