Generally, the trickster is defined as a swindler, an important and mischief in folk tradition. Trickster is known that Paul Radin named it from the study of the indian folk tale and Carl Gustav Jung took up it in "an archetype idea". It is a character type of the super individual of the human being as "a trickster archetype". The concept called the trickster was defined as human psychology and the philosophical important concept. It considered in the 20th century by Paul Radin, Kerenyi Kal and Carl Gustav Jung. In addition, I reconsider a myth and want to pay attention to achievement by Claude Gutave revi=straws which established structural anthropology. Trickster is ravager and on one side a creator likewise. His character is contradiction of good and evil and he has a role which a mediator of opposition to binomial the middle function.
Characteristics
- fundamentally ambiguous and anomalous.
- deceiver and trick-player
- shape-shifter
- situation-inverter
- messenger and imitator of the gods
- sacred and/or lewed bricoleur
