This thesis, in its broadest sense, is concerned with the archetypal foundations of patriarchal consciousness, its origins and functioning as expressed in myth, and its consequences for psyche. More narrowly, its primary focus is on establishing the constellation of the trickster archetype as a compensatory response of psyche to the splitting, repression, projection, and objectification of the archetypal feminine that constitutes patriarchal consciousness. Employing a hermeneutic methodology, a comparative study of trickster myths (Loki in Norse mythology and Hermes in Greek mythology) will be used to demonstrate both the initial rupture between the archetypal masculine and the archetypal feminine, as well as psyche’s constellation of the trickster archetype as an attempt to repair the split archetypal polarity. The ultimate intentions with this work are to expand analytical psychology’s theoretical understanding of psyche’s innate responsiveness to its own fragmentation; to establish the compensatory nature of the constellation of the trickster as a facet of the archetype; and to explore the psychological, psychotherapeutic, and social implications of the splitting-off of the archetypal feminine from the archetypal masculine.