Same-Sex Desire in the Unconscious of Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- Harwood, Britton J.
Same-Sex Desire in the Unconscious of Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
- Published
- Exemplaria 13: 99-135., 2001.
- Description
- Psychoanalytic reading of PF that identifies a reversal of the "logical sequence of origin, wish, and desire." This reversal "represses consciousness" and disguises the presence of the "Chaucerian ego" of the poem that is recognizable in the narrator's identification with the formel eagle. The Freudian "dreamwork" of PF reflects repression of same-sex desire, sublimated in homosocial relations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.