Chaucer as Psychologist in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Hagopian, John V.
Chaucer as Psychologist in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Literature and Psychology 5 (1955): 5-11.
- Description
- Assesses the characterizations of Troilus and of Criseyde in Freudian, psychological terms--Troilus as weak-willed and perhaps the "victim of an Oedipal tie to his mother"; Criseyde, strong-willed and "adept in the psychological handling of others," particularly Troilus with "his childish submission to a woman's mother-role." Focuses on "their decision to allow Criseyde to leave Troy" in TC 4.1128-1701 as evidence that the poem presents "their complex personalities and behavior patterns" in the "first psychological novel in the English language" and a depiction rather than an analysis of emotions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde