ABSTRACT
The Female Trickster presents a Post-Jungian postmodern perspective regarding the role of women in contemporary Western society by investigating the re-emergence of female trickster energy in all aspects of popular culture.
Ricki Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when women’s imagination was legally and psychologically enclosed millennia ago and demonstrates how the re-emergence of Trickster energy through the female imagination has the radical potential to effect a transformation of western consciousness. Examples are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from Jane Austen, and female sleuth narratives, to Madonna and Sex and the City, illustrating how Trickster energy is used not to maintain power and control but to integrate and unite the paradoxical through humour. Subjects covered include:
- imagination and metaphor
- the traditional trickster
- law and the imagination
- humour: Eros using logos
- the postmodern female trickster.
This highly original perspective on women's role in contemporary culture will offer readers a new vision of how humour psychologically operates as a healthy adaptation to trauma and adversity. It will be of great interest to all analytical psychologists and psychoanalysts as well as those in women's, cultural, legal and literary studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
Introducing the female Trickster
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter 2|18 pages
Meetings with remarkable women
chapter Chapter 3|26 pages
Location, location, location
part II|64 pages
Calling upon the ancestors
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Imagination and metaphor
chapter Chapter 5|6 pages
Where have all the virgins gone?
chapter Chapter 6|19 pages
Law and the imagination
chapter Chapter 7|24 pages
From the madwomen in the attic to mainstream and mysterious
part III|32 pages
Honoring the traditions
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
The traditional Trickster
chapter Chapter 9|15 pages
Humor: Eros using Logos
part IV|100 pages
Re/storation