Hysteria, perversion, and paranoia in The Canterbury tales : "wild" analysis and the symptomatic storyteller /

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'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McLaughlin, Becky Renee (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2020]
Series:	Research in medieval and early modern culture ; 25. Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 71.
Subjects:	Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales > Criticism and interpretation. Hysteria in literature. Paraphilias in literature. Paranoia in literature.

Table of Contents:

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
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Index