is movement by the poet fills Gawain's character with a psychological depth (Putter 120).
Manning also argues that, if the term psychological is taken to indicate some consideration of mental states, especially as they affect behavior, then Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has claims to being psychological (282). Although Manning would also later rely heavily on Jungian terminology and concepts to further explicate the text, he performs a Freudian analysis of the text when he focuses on what he perceives to be Gawain's feelings of guilt and shame after he realizes Bercilak's deception (281). He also notes that some of the later action in the poem can be interpreted in terms of unconscious and conscious behavior and states that the possibilities of detecting unconscious and conscious behavior and of recognizing the poet's emphasis upon Gawain's sense of shame suggest a psychological approach might indeed be fruitful (Manning 281).
The theory of the unconscious and humanity's pervading sense of guilt were significant
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