'Streght to My Matere': Rereading Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Downes, Jeremy.
'Streght to My Matere': Rereading Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Journal of Narrative and Life History 3:2-3 (1993): 155-78.
- Description
- A psychoanalytic analysis suggesting parallels between the "scopophilic" instinct represented in TC and the "extreme intertextuality" of the poem. Both are forms of the Oedipal complex whereby Criseyde, although she is finally unknowable, is for both Troilus and the narrator a "happy substitute" for the mother; Pandarus and Lollius are approving fathers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.