Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- McLaughlin, Becky Renee.
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