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oth. He possesses no values moralor social is at the mercy. of his<br />

passions and appetites yet throughhis actions all values come into.<br />

being.It is a personification of traits of character which are.<br />

sometimesworse and sometimes better than those the egopersonality.<br />

possesses(The Archetypes ). The Trickster is in other words.<br />

amanifestation of what Jung calls the shadow and he comments We<br />

areno. longer aware that in carnival customs and the like there<br />

areremnants of a. collective shadow which prove that the personal<br />

shadowis in part descended. a numinous collective figure (ibid.)from<br />

that is the Trickster. archetype.Furthermore the Trickster is a forerunner<br />

of the saviour and. likehim God man and animal at once. He is both<br />

subhuman and superhumana. bestial and divine being whose chief and<br />

most. alarmingcharacteristic is his unconscious ness . . .. He is so.<br />

unconsciousof himself that his body is not a unity and his two hands<br />

fight. eachother.As Jung says of the Trickster Although he is not really<br />

evil. hedoes the most atrocious things from sheer unconsciousness.<br />

andunrelatedness (ibid. ).We ought not to entertain the illusion that we.<br />

might cultivate goodand happiness in a pure state and expel evil and<br />

sorrow. as wastes.That is the terroristic dream of the transparency of<br />

good which. veryquickly ends in its opposite the transparency of evil.<br />

Bedre veier gir. flere ulykkerThe travel poems also reflect the<br />

Trickster's habit of. wandering(albeit his wandering is generally<br />

aimless). Radin comments that. theTrickster's desire to wander<br />

represents his protest. againstdomestication and society with all its<br />

obligations ().To what do we. cling so tightly when we resist the<br />

dangers of driftBarthes spoke. (positively) of drift as a kind of stupidity.<br />

Are weafraid of appearing. stupidIn when Oliver Cromwell's Puritan<br />

regime banned all. theatricalperformance commedia companies must<br />

have scrubbed England from. theirgigging schedules. But the<br />

Punchinello character appears to have hungin.. Crosspollinated with the<br />

local Vice character originally thetrickster. fool of the Mystery plays<br />

Punch utilised Harlequin'sslapstick bat took. a wife and resurfaced in<br />

the Punch and Judy puppetshow.PuckPunch.<br />

SantaPelznicholNicholasJanneyYule I Norge har vioskoreia og<br />

julebukker. they acted out an odd play the leader whodressed in goat or<br />

bear skins. argued with another character or withthe woman figure. He<br />

was killed the. woman lamented and the doctorcomically resuscitated<br />

him or he spontaneously. revived declaring hewasn't dead after all the<br />

Fool was in his original. beast form thedeath and execution were<br />

enacted amorally. In later plays the. Fool orbeastman is often killed by<br />

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