The Popular Meaning of Chaucer's Physician's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kinney, Thomas L.
The Popular Meaning of Chaucer's Physician's Tale
- Published
- Literature and Psychology 28 (1978): 76-84.
- Description
- PhyT has presented critics a problem. One way to account for it is to read it by dream analysis--as a dream-tale presenting the refusal of a girl to accept sexual maturation. Apius represents the power of sexual awakening,eros; the father her male side, animus; death, the symbolic union of eros and animus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.