Jung's Archetype of the Wise Old Man in Poems by Chaucer, Wordsworth, and Browning
- Author / Editor
- Gill, Richard.
Jung's Archetype of the Wise Old Man in Poems by Chaucer, Wordsworth, and Browning
- Published
- Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2 (1981): 18-32.
- Description
- Ambiguous old men in English poetry, including the one in PardT, can be illuminated by the psychological archetype of the "wise old man" that Jung describes in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.