It’s like Jung says in The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: “…the trickster obviously represents a vanishing level of consciousness which increasingly lacks the power to take, express, and assert itself. Furthermore, repression would prevent it from vanishing, because repressed contents are the very ones that have the best chance of survival, as we know from experience that nothing is corrected in the unconscious.”
Nietzsche said it with more pith: “ ’What? Doesn’t this mean, to speak with the vulgar: God is refuted, but the devil is not?’ On the contrary! On the contrary, my friends. And, the devil - who forces you to speak with the vulgar?”
I take language therapy quite seriously, and it is difficult to impossible to be therapeutic when you have to consider IF someone will misinterpret your expressions; especially when you have a history of someone systematically misrepresenting you to other people in an effort to use you for their agenda. I simply desire freedom of expression to keep the trickster at bay. As Nietzsche expressed, it can be like playing devil’s advocate with the devil and someone is bound to say WTF?
Nietzsche said it with more pith: “ ’What? Doesn’t this mean, to speak with the vulgar: God is refuted, but the devil is not?’ On the contrary! On the contrary, my friends. And, the devil - who forces you to speak with the vulgar?”
I take language therapy quite seriously, and it is difficult to impossible to be therapeutic when you have to consider IF someone will misinterpret your expressions; especially when you have a history of someone systematically misrepresenting you to other people in an effort to use you for their agenda. I simply desire freedom of expression to keep the trickster at bay. As Nietzsche expressed, it can be like playing devil’s advocate with the devil and someone is bound to say WTF?
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