Archetypes of Transformation: A Jungian Analysis of Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Brown, Eric Donald.

Title
Archetypes of Transformation: A Jungian Analysis of Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
DAI 33.10 (1973): 5672A.

Description
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBT and ClT, reading the two as parallel transformation stories. The first "seems to commemorate the event of the separation of consciousness"; in the second, Griselda "achieved individuation by recognizing her animus." Also comments on MerT and FranT as parts of the "Marriage Group."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale