Love and the Trickster

Jung and Sartre, different as they were, both wrote that love begins with projection. We project our own ideas of who we want the other person to be onto that person. We project ourselves onto the ones we love. The great archetypal trickster plays his tricks on us by letting us trick ourselves. Love, by beginning with projection becomes the greatest trick to be played on the fool who falls for it by fooling himself; the lucky fool.