This article argues that the Troilus's relationship with Criseyde is fraught with anxious desire. By referencing medieval theories of the mind and Kleinian psychoanalytic theory, it shows that the manner in which Troilus memorializes his desire for Criseyde in the books I to III of the poem has a direct impact on the way he experiences her loss in book V. Throughout the poem, anxiety is the definitive characteristic of Troilus's desire. It emerges when he first encounters an uncontrollable desire and when the consummation of his desire is delayed. It is this anxious engendering of desire, and not loss per se, that causes the feelings of persecution and victimization in Troilus when he loses Criseyde at the end of the poem.Keywords Chaucer Á Troilus Á Melanie Klein Á Anxiety Á Desire Á Memory Robert Henryson, who in writing The Testament of Cresseid became an early critic of Chaucer, was disappointed enough with the virtual absence of moral judgment on Criseyde in Troilus and Criseyde to re-imagine her fate. At the same time, his continuation also re-works the picture of Troilus that we get from Chaucer's poem. Instead of the paranoid and anxious lover who haunts the verses of Book V,
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