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Love, Fate And The Trickster
Love is such a fateful factor in the life of every human being because, more than anything else, it has the power to release the living from their ego-bound consciousness…It is a mystery which no human being has so far penetrated but which is at the same time the goal of life, born anew in each of us.
— Marie-Louise von Franz,
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…. For Trickster contains a transcendent nature whose epic qualities are truly awesome. Yet with all his enormous power he is enormously stupid, the fool of the ages, the epitome or personification of human absurdity….Trickster’s guises are legion; so much so that a well-known commentator, Joseph Campbell, has called him the “Hero with a Thousand Faces.”
For under whatever name, Trickster evolves.….On entering upon existence he is first seen as a blurred, chaotic, hardly unified being, having no self-knowledge or life-knowledge, despite his divine parenthood. It is only later on…that Trickster emerges as a culture hero, demigod, and savior of peoples. But this occurs only after his transformation or self-integration takes place…
The trickster, then, is both a symbol and a medium. He is a symbol of life as it actually is; but he is also a medium into understanding and reconciliation. He is “Everyman”, embodying every one of us and everything….He is what the…
