#40 | Before The Patriarch, The Trickster - Allan Chinen (Beyond the Hero)
“The most addictive substance is power. And once you get it, you always want more.”
My guest today is Allan B. Chinen, a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco and Clinical Professor Psychiatry at the University of California.
He has lectured extensively and presented numerous workshops on the role of myths, fairy tales and legends around life’s transitions. He the author of numerous books, including In the Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life, and Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul.
In our conversation today, we explore the relationship between the Hero and the Patriarch, and men’s initial fear and fascination with the Feminine. We unpack the tales that may guide men’s roles at mid-life, after the Hero has come home. And finally, we reach further back into the time before civilization, wherein lies the deep masculine wisdom of the Trickster.
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SHOW NOTES
Collecting fairy tales for adults and older men
Beyond the hero/patriarch
The skill of wandering
The secret Lodges
The most addictive substance is power
Story of the North Wind’s Gift
Meeting the spirit brother
Fear and Fascination with the Feminine
Leaving the house of the Mother
Consequence of the nuclear family
The Father as Trickster
The King has donkey ears
The Hero constellates his opposite
The dance of Batman and Joker
From the Great Mother to Patriarchy
Entrepreneurs as Tricksters
The different ways of truth
