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oth. 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.
Are. weafraid of appearing stupidIn when Oliver Cromwell's Puritan
regime. banned all theatricalperformance commedia companies must
have scrubbed. England from theirgigging schedules. But the
Punchinello character appears to. have detgin. Crosspollinated with the
local Vice character originally. thetrickster fool of the Mystery plays
Punch utilised. Harlequin'sslapstick bat took a wife and resurfaced in
the Punch and Judy. puppetshow.PuckPunch
SantaPelznicholNicholasJanneyYule I Norge har. vioskoreia og
julebukker they acted out an odd play the leader whodressed. in goat or
bear skins argued with another character or withthe woman figure.. He
was killed the woman lamented and the doctorcomically resuscitated
him. or he spontaneously revived declaring hewasn't dead after all the
Fool was. in his original beast form thedeath and execution were
enacted amorally. In. later plays the Fool orbeastman is often killed by
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