TRICKSTER
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2020
- The archetype of the trickster shows up in ambiguity, duplicity, contradiction and paradox. Usually depicted as masculine, trickster has been featured in tales worldwide through history. We see him as a boundary crosser, shape-shifting imitator, versatile adapter, and disrupter of norms whose deceptions often backfire on him. Our inner trickster causes ego’s intentions to go haywire, and shows up as slips of the tongue, forgetting something important, or dream behavior that jolts the waking mind. Trickster’s disregard for rationality and rules disrupts stasis and rigidity, paradoxically helping to establish standards and create culture. Trickster lies at the heart of art and story, enlarging our world by imaging and voicing psychic truths. Trickster confronts us with our limitations, and can be counted on to teach us flexibility and humility with irreverent humor.
HEREW'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:
"I’m walking along the edge of a wood along a path. I see a stag emerge from the wood and then the rest of his deer herd join him. I think ‘wow how magical’, but it quickly becomes evident that they are a threatening presence. The stag starts running towards me and the rest of the herd follows. I run as fast as I can, but as I start to feel the stags breathe on my back, I realize that I cannot out run him. I decide to grab him by the horns and throw him down. I kill him."
REFERENCES:
Hyde, Lewis. Trickster Makes This World. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art. a.co/d/ets6oMf
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Thanks. I really enjoyed this episode. The significance of using Ellen as an example, prior to the exposure of the darker side of her trickster energy, is not lost on me. I was also reminded of a time when I was facilitating a workshop and instead of writing 'public space' on the whiteboard, I wrote 'pubic space'. It brought the house down....
Groovy. Thanks.
Trickster above all is a creator. Without tricksters action the cosmos would be stale and sterile
A marvellous topic and even more relevant today.
This episode helped me very much ❤
The energy needs to be grounded in values, like all energy imo. That way it's useful, positive, and stabilizes the individual in the uncertainty that brought about this energy. Apparently, the former self gets left behind, but there's no reason that what it acquired in knowledge and noble values, the baby, should go with that bath water.
that was scary, the looping sound. :O
The Mel Brooks movie was the producers, in which spring time for Hitler was the play they hoped would be a financial failure but profitable..
I'd be curious to listen to a Freudian's interpretation of this young woman's dream.
Meeee, the struggle is real 😪
*When the world is upside-down, it takes a Trickser to flip it on it's head.*
I am Raven come to bring Light. Light is best seen from the pit of existential dread & darkness. Heheeheh. I am every one and no one. They never see me coming nor witness my going. But they are uneasy .. and know I've been present. Heheeheh.
If you want to see a great trickster watch Loge in Wagner's Das Rheingold
Arid foolery