White
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
White
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 1-66, 2000.
- Description
- Reads BD as a psychoanalytic exploration of the nature of signification in which the dreamer achieves "his own talking cure." Surveys medieval and modern theories of signification, including those of Aristotle, Anselm, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Buridan, Saussure, John Searle, Saul Kripke, Lacan, Žižek, Kristeva, and Vicky Kirby, and traces parallels between BD and these thinkers, especially Lacan. The process of therapy in BD confronts and deconstructs the "faultline" of noncontradiction in Western thought, enabling the reader to see beyond this "gendered, linguistic, and metaphysical bar."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.