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¿Anjoüs Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes¿s Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut¿s Fountain of Love. Together, these texts form a corpus exploring human selfhood as wounded and undone by desire. Emerging in the twelfth century in Western Europe, this discourse of the wounded self has survived with ever-increasing importance, informing contemporary methods of theoretical inquiry into mourning, melancholy, trauma and testimony. Taking its cue from the moment Narcissus bruises himself upon learning he cannot receive the love