Recognition and Regression in Chaucerian Love Poetry

Author / Editor
Keller, Kimberly Anne.

Title
Recognition and Regression in Chaucerian Love Poetry

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 122A.

Description
A psychoanalytic, Lacanian study of the lover's complaint reveals the fragmented lover as seeking at once wholeness through recognition of his "trouthe" by the lady and union with her. Treats lovers' fantasies and failures in TC, Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Chaucerian apocrypha.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucerian Apocrypha.