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]
Author(s): Radin, Paul
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Year: 1956
Language: English
Pages: 211
City: New York
Tags: Native American Culture
PREFATORY NOTE BY PAUL RADIN ix
Part One
THE TRICKSTER MYTH OF THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS
I.The Winnebago Trickster Cycle 3
II.Notes to Pages 3-53 54
Part Two
SUPPLEMENTARY TRICKSTER MYTHS
I.The Winnebago Hare Cycle 63
II.Notes to Pages 63-91 92
III. Summary of the Assiniboine Trickster Myth 97
IV. Summary of the Tlingit Trickster Myth 104
Part Three
THE NATURE AND MEANING OF THE MYTH BY PAUL RADIN
I. The Text 111
II. Winnebago History and Culture 112
III. Winnebago Mythology and Literary Tradition 118
IV. The Winnebago Hare Cycle and its Cognates 124
V. The Winnebago Trickster Figure 132
VI.The Attitude of the Winnebago toward Wakdjunkaga 147
VII.The Wakdjunkaga Cycle as a Satire 151
VIII.The Wakdjunkaga Cycle and its Relation to other North
American Indian Trickster Cycles 155
Part Four
THE TRICKSTER IN RELATION TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY KARL KERENYI, TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
I.First Impressions 173
II.Style 177
III. Parallels 180
IV. Nature of the Trickster 184
V.His Difference from Hermes 188
Part Five
ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE TRICKSTER FIGURE BY C. G. JUNG, TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL 195
