Chaucer on the Couch: The Pardoner's Performance and the Case for Psychoanalytic Criticism

Author / Editor
Harwood, Britton [J.]

Title
Chaucer on the Couch: The Pardoner's Performance and the Case for Psychoanalytic Criticism

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 47-57.

Description
"Parapractic" repetitions in PardPT indicate that the Pardoner may be an "unconscious inversion" of Chaucer's own desires for home and for his absent father.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.