Titlebook: Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature; Wounds of Desire Nicholas Ealy Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Autho

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2945-5936 d trauma studies with medieval literature.Examines selfhood .This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the .Lay of Narcissus., Alain de Lille’s .Plaint of Nature., René d’Anjou’s .Love-Smitten Heart., Chrétien de Troyes’s .Story of the

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Introduction: Narcissus and the Wounded Selfinfluenced by Ovid’s myth, relayed through discussions of Bernart de Ventadorn’s poetry and Guillaume de Lorris’s ., bases itself upon the wound resulting from unrequited love for an image that undercuts the lover’s body. The wounded self therefore becomes the lens through which the literature this book treats is examined.

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Narcissus and Selfhood: , ,ct. An analysis of Narcissus’s encounter with his reflection provides a discussion of his exclamation “je me plaing” (I lament myself), marking his selfhood as wounded by unfulfillable desires. The chapter concludes by examining how vision cannot lead to truth and how love is an undeniable imperative for human subjects.

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Narcissus and Melancholy: René d’Anjou’s , Love, (2) encounters the Fountain of Fortune, a spring of melancholic bile that allows him to fixate upon his beloved’s image, and (3) discovers he must submit to Love before the Diamond Mirror, a double of Narcissus’s fountain, realizing his selfhood is forever wounded by frustrated desires which, nonetheless, appear achievable.

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