The Manciple's Phallic Matrix

Author / Editor
Travis, Peter W.

Title
The Manciple's Phallic Matrix

Published
SAC 25: 317-24, 2003.

Description
Psychoanalytic analysis of ManT as "an example of a narrator's strenuously repressing the maternal yet subliminally negotiating its inevitable return." Various features of the Tale are projections of infantile "primal" relations with the mother: "sensorimotor disorder, oral consumption, human aggression, language, and the demonized feminine."

Alternative Title
Colloquium: The Manciple's Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.