Trickster Archetype Research Articles

The Figure of Trickster in the Work of Andrei Tarkovsky from the Perspective of William J. Hynes’s Theory

This paper is dedicated to an analysis of the figure of the trickster in the work of Andrei Tarkovsky from the perspective of William J. Hynes’s theory. The paper discusses three films directed by Andrei Tarkovsky: Nostalghia (1983), The Sacrifice (1986) and Stalker (1979). The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread mythical figures. It is characterized by a paradoxicality which serves to manifest the trickster’s liminality and transformative powers resulting from the absence of divisions. Examining the selected protagonists from Tarkovsky’s films, it may be seen that many of the features of the trickster are also constitutive for them. The paper works to understand why Tarkovsky chose to use the trickster figures to promote his own ideas, as well as how changes in the contemporary culture and society influence how the trickster archetype is presented in his movies.

"The Cards, the Cards, the Cards Will Tell": The Power of Tarot Archetypes in Disney's: The Princess and the Frog

This article discusses the use of tarot in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, and the role of Facilier as the embodiment of a trickster archetype who also draws on West African Yoruba/Vodou divination traditions. It also explores the film as a vehicle for the Fool's Journey.

Сетевые коммуникативные стратегии: троллинг

This paper deals with trolling as network communicative strategy. Modern Russian and European conceptions and definitions of trolling are discussed. The idea of a troll as modern variation of trickster archetype is suggested. The idea of trolling as a continuation of carnivalesque and laughing culture is introduced.

«ХТО МОСКАЛЯ ОБ’ЇХАВ ЗРОДУ?»: ПОЕМА «ЕНЕЇДА» І. КОТЛЯРЕВСЬКОГО В КОНТЕКСТІ КРУТІЙСЬКОЇ ЛІТЕРАТУРИ

The article deals with the poem of I. Kotlyarevsky “The Aeneid” in its correlation with the picaresque literature. In view of the fact that the problem of the picaresque literature existence in the XVIII–XIX centuries has not yet been fully studied, such a study is considered to be a contemporary one. In his famous “The Aeneid”, I. Kotlyarevsky addresses the archaic origins of picaresque literature, its subsistence in Ukrainian folklore, and the top versions of the picaresque novel in European literatures of the XVIII century (novels of Alain-René Lesage and his many imitators). The authors of the article assert that the work contains the reception of the picaresque prose’s main features, because the story of Aeneas and Trojans’ wanderings corresponds to the main plot of the classic picaresque novel, which can be conditionally called a “travel story plot”. The psychological basis of the Aeneas’ image is the trickster archetype, expressed in the picaro, who successfully adapts in new social conditions. It is also assumed that in the poem one can see a deliberate reception of the central images of the original and translated picaresque novels of Western European and Russian writers.

The myth of the city trickster: storytelling, bankers and ideology in the Mail Online

This paper examines discourse, mythology and ideology in media coverage of the financial crisis. A critical discourse analysis examines representations of bankers in the Mail Online. I argue that the mythological trickster archetype contributed complications and paradoxical traits in discourses about the banking crisis. Whilst recollecting their heroic status in 2005 compared to the ridicule they have faced more recently, we see a shift in character traits attributed to bankers. Although the Mail's moral storytelling has called for some form of punishment or legislative reform, there has also been a reluctance to compromise free market values or discuss alternative models of banking. Complex characteristics of trickster mythology reflect current dilemmas and anxieties over the power and practices of financial elites. Whether bankers are providers of wealth or destroyers of economies, their ridicule highlights a sensitive balance of values and interests that operate through mythological storytelling.

Expert witness and Jungian archetypes

Jung's theories of archetype, shadow, and the personal and collective unconscious provide a postmodern framework in which to consider the role of the expert witness in judicial proceedings. Archetypal themes, motifs, and influences help to illuminate the shadow of the judicial system and projections and behaviors among the cast of the court in pursuing justice. This article speaks to archetypal influences and dialectical tensions encountered by the expert witness in this judicial drama. The archetype of Justice is born from the human need for order and relational fairness in a world of chaos. The persona of justice is the promise of truth in the drama. The shadow of justice is untruth, the need to win by any means. The dynamics of the trickster archetype serve and promote injustice. These influences are examined by means of a case example. This approach will deepen understanding of court proceedings and the role of the expert witness in the heroic quest for justice.

Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture

Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of globalization. This view is elaborated and modified by an interpretation based on a philosophy of history as recurrence or “metempsychosis” (Nietzsche, Vico, Joyce) and the mythic figure of Trickster as formulated in anthropology and psychoanalysis (Radin, Hyde, Jung). Specifically, the political culture of globalization is cast in terms of the reconfiguration of the archaic and an intensification of myth (Benjamin). An examination of the ongoing Tribunal of Inquiry into Payments to Politicians in Ireland shows how tribunals are theaters in which the politician appears as a recurrence of a Trickster archetype adept at negotiating and playing this liminal and changing context. Tribunals struggle not so much to eradicate and replace Trickster by systems of formal rationality, but to redeem his vital energy and creativity.

The North American Indian Trickster

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe North American Indian TricksterMac Linscott RickettsMac Linscott Ricketts Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 5, Number 2Winter, 1966 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/462529 Views: 51Total views on this site Citations: 35Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1966 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Deon Liebenberg The Power of Mimetic Performance: Cognitive Evolution and Supernatural Agency, Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 11, no.22 (Sep 2022): 322–349.https://doi.org/10.5325/preternature.11.2.0322Vitor M. Lima, Luís A. Pessôa, Russell W. 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