"All Is Alike Good": Melancholia and Desire in Medieval Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Dragu, Jacqueline.
"All Is Alike Good": Melancholia and Desire in Medieval Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
- Physical Description
- viii, 131 pp.
- Description
- Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on the edge of sinfulness," while PrT "paranoiacally [sic] attributes its repressed aggression towards [the clergeon] onto the Jews rather than ever identifying that aggression as an aspect of its own desire."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
Prioress and Her Tale