Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales” : : “Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller / / Becky Renee McLaughlin.
Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 295 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, or A Long Preamble to a Tale
- Chapter 1: The Prick of the Prioress, or Hysteria and Its Humors
- Chapter 2: Portrait of the Hysteric as a Young Girl
- Chapter 3: Masochist as Miscreant Minister: The Parable of the Pardoner’s Perverse Performance
- Chapter 4: Confessing Animals
- Chapter 5: Before There Was Sade, There Was Chaucer: Sadistic Sensibility in the Tales of the Man of Law, the Clerk, and the Physician
- Chapter 6: Sadomasochism for (Neurotic) Dummies
- Chapter 7: The Reeve’s Paranoid Eye, or The Dramatics of “Bleared” Sight
- Chapter 8: Farting and Its (Dis)contents, or Call Me Absolon
- Chapter 9: Retractor
- Bibliography
- Index