The Trickster: A Study In American Indian Mythology

by Paul Radin

Overview

The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here in full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Kerényi, and Jung reveal the Trickster as filling a twofold role: on the one hand he is “an archetypal psychic structure” that harks back to “an absolutely undifferentiated human consciousness, corresponding to a psyche that has hardly left the animal level” (Jung); on the other hand, his myth is a present-day outlet for the most unashamed and liberating satire of the onerous obligations of social order, religion, and ritual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786257222
Publisher:	Normanby Press
Publication date:	11/06/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
Lexile:	1190L (what's this?)
File size:	767 KB

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