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G. JUNG  \nPHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY New York  \nPublished 1956 by Philosophical Library, Inc. 15 East 40th Street, New York 16,  \nN.Y.  \nCopyright 1956 by Paul Radin  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nTo JohnS. Martin and William E. Martin  \n-v-  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFATORY NOTE BY PAUL RADIN  ix  \nPart One  \nTHE TRICKSTER MYTH  \nOF THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS I. The Winnebago Trickster Cycle  3  \nII. Notes to Pages 3-53  54  \nPart Two  \nSUPPLEMENTARY TRICKSTER MYTHS  \nI. The Winnebago Hare Cycle  63  \nII. Notes to Pages 63-91  92  \nIII. Summary of the Assiniboine Trickster Myth  97  \nIV. Summary of the Tlingit Trickster Myth  104  \nPart Three  \nTHE NATURE AND MEANING OF THE MYTH  \nBY PAUL RADIN  \nI. The Text  111  \nII. Winnebago History and Culture  112  \nIII. Winnebago Mythology and Literary Tradition  118  \nIV. The Winnebago Hare Cycle and its Cognates  124  \nV. The Winnebago Trickster Figure  132  \nVI. The Attitude of the Winnebago toward  \nWakdjunkaga  147  \nVII. The Wakdjunkaga Cycle as a Satire  151  \nVIII. The Wakdjunkaga Cycle and its Relation to  \nother North  \nAmerican Indian Trickster Cycles  155  \nPart Four  \nTHE TRICKSTER IN RELATION TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY KARL KERÉENYI, TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL  \nI. First Impressions  173  \nII. Style  177  \nIII. Parallels  180  \nIV. Nature of the Trickster  184  \nV. His Difference from Hermes  188  \nPart Five  \nON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE TRICKSTER  \nFIGURE BY C. G. JUNG, TRANSLATED BY  \nR. V. C. HULL  193  \nPREFATORY NOTE  \nF ew myths have so wide a distribution asthe one, known by the name of the Trickster, which we are presenting here. For few can we so confidently assert that they belong to the oldest expressions of mankind. Few other myths have persisted with their fundamental content unchanged. The Trickster myth is found in clearly recognizable form among the simplest aboriginal tribes and among the complex. We encounter it among the ancient Greeks, the Chinese, the Japanese and in the Semitic world. Many of the Trickster's traits were perpetuated in the figure of the mediaeval jester, and have survived right up to the present day in the Punch-and-Judy plays and in the clown. Although repeatedly combined with other myths and frequently drastically reorganized and reinterpreted, its basic plot seems always to have succeeded in reasserting itself.  \nManifestly we are here in the presence of a figure and a theme or themes which have had a special and permanent appeal and an unusual attraction for mankind from the very beginnings of civilization. In what must be regarded as its earliest and most archaic form, as found among the North American Indians, Trickster is at one and the sametime creator and destroyer, giverand negator, he who dupes others and who is always duped himself. He wills nothing consciously. At all times he is constrained to behave as he does from impulses over which he has no control. He knows neither good nor evil yet he is responsible for both. He possesses no values, moral or social, is at the mercy of his passions and appetites, yet through his actions all values come into being. But not only he, so our myth tells us, possesses these traits. So, likewise, do the other figures of the plot connected with him: the animals, the various supernatural beingsand monsters, and man.  \nTrickster himself is, not infrequently, identified with specific  \n-ix-  \nanimals, such as raven, coyote, hare, spider, but these animals are only secondarily to be equated with concrete animals. Basically he possesses nowell-defined and fixed form. As he is represented in the version of the Trickster myth we are publishing here, he is primarily an inchoate being of undetermined proportions, a figure foreshadowing the shape of man. In this version he possesses intestines wrapped around his body, and an equally long penis, likewise wrapped around his body with his scrotum on top of i","cbCaisxGuGtd0C27","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisxGuGtd0C27","pdf",584710,224,"English","# Prefatory Note by Paul Radin\n# Part One: The Trickster Myth of the Winnebago Indians\n## I. The Winnebago Trickster Cycle\n## II. Notes to Pages 3-53\n# Part Two: Supplementary Trickster Myths\n## I. The Winnebago Hare Cycle\n## II. Notes to Pages 63-91\n## III. Summary of the Assiniboine Trickster Myth\n## IV. Summary of the Tlingit Trickster Myth\n# Part Three: The Nature and Meaning of the Myth\n## I. The Text\n## II. Winnebago History and Culture\n## III. Winnebago Mythology and Literary Tradition\n## IV. The Winnebago Hare Cycle and its Cognates\n## V. The Winnebago Trickster Figure\n## VI. The Attitude of the Winnebago toward Wakdjunkaga\n## VII. The Wakdjunkaga Cycle as a Satire\n## VIII. The Wakdjunkaga Cycle and its Relation to other North American Indian Trickster Cycles\n# Part Four: The Trickster in Relation to Greek Mythology\n## I. First Impressions\n## II. Style\n## III. Parallels\n## IV. Nature of the Trickster\n## V. His Difference from Hermes\n# Part Five: On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure","[{\"question\":\"What is the Trickster myth described as, and why is it significant across cultures?\",\"answer\":\"The Trickster myth is described as having an unusually wide distribution and a fundamental content that persists with minimal change. It functions as a major figure and theme with lasting appeal from early civilization onward.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text characterize the Trickster’s nature and moral qualities?\",\"answer\":\"The Trickster is portrayed as simultaneously creator and destroyer, giver and negator, and as both duping others and being duped. 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