Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

whatfraud of. words Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature
boundlesslyextravagant. boundlessly indifferent without purpose
orconsideration without. pity or justice at once fruitful and barrenand
uncertain imagine to. yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a
powerhowCOULD you live in accordance with such.
indifferenceContrary to the underlying Rousseauist ideology which
argues that. theprofound nature of the liberated subject can only be
good and thatnature. itself once emancipated cannot but be endowed
with naturalequilibrium and. all the ecological virtues there is nothing
moreambiguous or perverse than. a subject.Trickster is at one and the
same time creator and destroyer giver. andnegator he who dupes others
and who is always duped himself. He. willsnothing consciously. At all
times he is constrained to behave as hedoes. impulses over which he
has no control. He knows neither goodnor evil yet he. is responsible for
both. He possesses no values moralor social is at the mercy. of his
passions and appetites yet throughhis actions all values come into.
being.It is a personification of traits of character which are.
sometimesworse and sometimes better than those the egopersonality.
possesses(The Archetypes ). The Trickster is in other words.
amanifestation of what Jung calls the shadow and he comments We
areno. longer aware that in carnival customs and the like there
areremnants of a. collective shadow which prove that the personal
shadowis in part descended. a nuous collective figure (ibid.)from that is
the Trickster. archetype.Furthermore the Trickster is a forerunner of the
saviour and. likehim God man and animal at once. He is both
subhuman and superhumana. bestial and divine being whose chief and
most alargcharacteristic. is his unconscious ness . . .. He is so
unconsciousof himself that his body. is not a unity and his two hands
fight eachother.As Jung says of the. Trickster Although he is not really
evil hedoes the most atrocious. things from sheer unconsciousness
andunrelatedness (ibid. ).We ought. not to entertain the illusion that we
might cultivate goodand happiness in. a pure state and expel evil and
sorrow as wastes.That is the terroristic. dream of the transparency of
good which veryquickly ends in its opposite the. transparency of evil.
Bedre veier gir flere ulykkerThe travel poems also. reflect the
Trickster's habit of wandering(albeit his wandering is. generally
aimless). Radin comments that theTrickster's desire to wander.
represents his protest againstdomestication and society with all its.
obligations ().To what do we cling so tightly when we resist the
dangers. of driftBarthes spoke (positively) of drift as a kind of stupidity.
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