Trickster

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TRICKSTERAleksandra Sierka, Magdalena Zych

Trickster - definition1. someone who plays practical jokes on others2. someone who leads you to believe something

that is not true3. a mischievous supernatural being found in the

folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily partsSource: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

4. a person who tricks or cheats peopleSource: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/trickster

Features a boundary-crosser always at the edge, in between, opportunistic lies and steals to disturb the stablished categories of truth and

property an omniscient creator and an innocent fool fools and gets fooled a malicious destroyer and a childlike prankster creates order and chaos may teach humans the skills of survival keeps us from being too confident in ourselves; provokes insight a maverick (nonconformist, individualist; free thinker; loner)

Archetype - definition

1. A very typical example of a certain person or thing2. Psychoanalysis (In Jungian theory)

a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious

3. A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythologySource: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/archetype

Jung's Archetypes

Jung listed four main forms of archetypes: The Shadow, The Anima, The Animus and The Self

Other archetypes: Family archetypes (the father, the mother, the child); Story archetypes (the hero, the maiden, the wise old man, the magician, the earth mother, the witch or sorceress, the trickster); Animal archetypes (the faithful dog, the enduring horse, the devios cat)

Source: http://changingminds.org/explanations/identity/jung_archetypes.htm

Which Jung Archetype Best Describes You?

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Mischevious (adjective) – maliciously or playfully annoyingRejection (noun) – denial, refusal, elimination, exclusionControl freak – a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done

Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth

The standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula

represented in the rites of passage: separation--initiation--return: which might be named the

nuclear unit of the monomyth.

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Source: http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/journeystages.pdf

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Carl Jung in "The Hero's Journey"http://youtu.be/aY1S5iIo1yw

LOKImischief (noun) – trouble, prank, playfulnesstrickery (noun) – deception, joke, dishonestyliability (noun) – responsibility, dutyto disguise (verb) –

to change the appearance so as to conceal identity or mislead,

mare (noun) – a fully mature female horseto pit (verb) - to set in opposition or combatdwarf (noun) – a being that dwells in mountains

and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting

ambiguous (adj.) – of doubtful or uncertain natureally (noun) – associate, colleague, friend

HERMESboundary (noun) – barrier, border, edgelyre (noun) - a string instrumentdivine (adj.) – holy, spiritual, sacredstaff (noun) - a stickto outwit (verb) – to outsmart, deceivecrib (noun) - a child's bed with enclosed sides

ANANSIcunning (adj.) – devious, deceivingguile (noun) - slyness, clevernesssupposedly (adv.) – allegedly, probably, seeminglycrafty (adj.) - clever, smartslave (noun) -

a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another

VELEScattle (noun) - bovine animals like cowswealth (noun) - money, resources, propertysupreme (adj.) - greatest, principalcarnival (noun) – festival, outdoor celebrationsorcerer (noun) – wizard, alchemist, clairvoyantto depict (verb) – to describe, to presentlivestock (noun) -

the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on afarm or ranch.

Storytelling (task)

Pick a trickster god (Loki, Hermes, Anansi, Veles)

VILLAIN / OBSTACLE / HERO

Create a story based on the chosen stages of the hero’s journey

Readingcome to blows - to have a fight or a serious argument with someonestrife (noun) – a conflict, angry or violent strugglemundane (adj.) – ordinary, banal, day-to-dayprofound (adj.) - intellectual, thoughtfulbitter (adj.) – harsh, resentful or cynicalsubterfuge (noun) – cheating, deception, ploytimid (adj.) – shy, frightened, modestcontrive (verb) - to invent, design, formilk (noun) - kind, typeself-delusion (noun) - the act of allowing yourself to believe something that is not truecrumble (verb) – to break or fall into piecesupheaval (noun) - major changeaforementioned (adj.) - mentioned beforeconfined (adj.) - limited, enclosedscrewball comedy - a romance between opposites, especially between an "idle rich", fun-loving

woman and a hard-working, practical, serious manextricate (verb) – to get out of a situationdeliberately (adv.) - intentionallyhavoc (noun) – chaos, chaotic situationinadvertent (adj.) – accidentaloutrageous (adj.) - very bad, horrible, shocking

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