ISBN:
9780415385305
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Female Trickster : The Mask That Reveals, Post-Jungian and Postmodern Psychological Perspectives on Women in Contemporary Culture
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
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 A
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Introducing the female Trickster; 1 Introduction; Definitions; What is a Trickster and is the female Trickster really different?; How Trickster energy transforms culture through art; The fictive female sleuth as postmodern female Trickster; Notes; 2 Meetings with remarkable women; Introduction; Jung and I: captured by a literary manifestation; Me and the girls; The postmodern female Trickster appears; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Location, location, location; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Texts written by women and a feminist approach to text are not the samePsychological considerations: research on the feminine; Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives on the feminine; Summary; Notes; Part II Calling upon the ancestors; 4 Imagination and metaphor; Introduction; Imagination and recovered memory: the numinous process of remembering; Shape-shifting and transformation in the imaginal realm; Imagination; What has women's imagination produced?; Summary; Notes; 5 Where have all the virgins gone?; Introduction; Mnemosyne, mistress of Eleutherian Hills
Description / Table of Contents:
The pre-patriarchal virgin and today's virginal feminine presenceThe pre-patriarchal virgin energy and Jungian feminism; Summary; Notes; 6 Law and the imagination; Introduction; The enclosure; The importance of being: ancient Athens; The crumbling of the enclosure; Can law produce a new archetype?; Summary; Notes; 7 From the madwomen in the attic to mainstream and mysterious: a brief and highly selective history of literature and literary theory as it relates to the female Trickster; Introduction; The novel form and early women's literature in England and the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
The importance of developments in the mid to late nineteenth centuryThe importance of being single and mysterious; The 1970s and women's literature; Jungian approaches to popular cultural forms; The psychological and the aesthetic attitudes; Problems with traditional Jungian literary criticism; Summary; Notes; Part III Honoring the traditions; 8 The traditional Trickster; Introduction; Traditional Trickster myths; Traditional Trickster as individuation myth; Other voices on the meaning of Trickster; Trickster as taboo transgressor; Enter Hermes; Conclusion: Trickster is humor; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Humor: Eros using LogosIntroduction; Deep play; How and when in the developmental sequence does humor develop?; Psychoanalytic approaches to humor; A brief gallop through humor's pasture; Summary; Notes; Part IV Re/storation; 10 Women are funny; Introduction: is there a female sense of humor?; An example of a postmodern female Trickster; Differences between male and female humor; What is a feminist comic sensibility?; Psychological considerations; A woman with a sense of humor is dangerous; Anger; Women writing redux: women writing funny; Conclusion; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
11 The postmodern female Trickster
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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