Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer
- Published
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- 327 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Cultures, no. 31.
- Description
- Fradenburg theorizes a new combination of historicism and Lacanian psychoanalysis and explores the medieval idea of sacrifice and its role in cultural production. Linking ethics and desire, sacrifice is a way of pursuing and prolonging desire, even though on the surface sacrifice appears to be a denial of desire. Discussion of the "history of the signifier" clarifies the role of signification in making sacrifice enjoyable. Individual chapters focus on psychoanalysis and historicism, BD, MkT, KnT, LGW, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.