The Psychic Struggle of the Narrative Ego in the Conclusion of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Schricker, Gale C.
The Psychic Struggle of the Narrative Ego in the Conclusion of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 72 (1993): 15-31.
- Description
- The epilogue reveals that the narrator of TC undergoes (in Freudian terms) a neurotic crisis. Ultimately, however, he demonstrates the psychic health of his ego by integrating conflicting forces of the id (functions of the received tale), the super-ego (represented by Gower and Strode), and present objective reality (the narrator's immediate audience).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.