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The Trickster
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Karl Jung's explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural and
religious literature is that they are the product of what he calls the
collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human
beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked ey ....
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....ventor of ingenious stratagems is presented as an idiot;
the master of magical power is sometimes powerless to extricate himself from
quandaries." (p.67 Hynes and Doty). The trickster seems to be a comedy of
opposites. For every good aspect of his persona there is an equal and opposite
aspect. In religious stories his role is very diverse. He is the breaker if
taboos. He provides comic relief to a religious myth. And he will pull off
elaborate schemes to teach a moral lesson or expose the folly .... |
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