Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology (Revised) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805203516)

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 is full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Ker駭yi, and Jung reveal with 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 obligation of social order, religion, and ritual.

With commentaries by Karl Ker駭yi and C. G. Jung
Introduction by Stanley Diamond

Author: Paul Radin
ISBN-10: 0805203516
ISBN-13: 9780805203516
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1987
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d