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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. [From Amazon]

Who reads The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology?

Author

Radin, Paul

Publisher

Philosophical Library

Published

1956

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Ethnography

Rating

3.87 / 5 (139 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14