Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Female Trickster The Mask That Reveals Post - Jungian And Postmodern Psychological Perspectives On Women In Contemporary Culture
Author(s): Tannen Ricki Stefanie (Analytical Psychologist In Private Practice California Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415385312
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2007
Category: Gender Studies: Women