Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
McLaughlin, Becky Renee.

Title
Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.

Physical Description
vii, 293 pp.

Description
Uses psychoanalysis as a "pedagogical tool" to understand Chaucer’s pilgrims in CT. Begins with the "spectacle of hysteria" to explore "ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language" in CT. Discusses "perversions of festishism, masochism, and sadism" in GP, WBPT, PrT, PardT, MLT, ClT, and PhyT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Physician and His Tale