Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

and Cape Cod.

Thank you. Today we're going to do an analysis of snow white.

It's always fun when Depp and I are on our own.

Lisa is traveling today to pick up a fairy tale and kind of move it around, look at it, be curious about it from a Jungian perspective. And it can be really interesting

and exciting, particularly a fairy tale that is so present in our modern culture.

Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, some of these fairy tales, which are ancient,

some people speculate are perhaps even thousands of years old before they were finally recorded,

often by the Grimm's Brothers for us, capture ancient

and archetypal information.

One of the things that's unique about fairy tales is that fairy tales have been curated by

the collective for hundreds if not thousands of years, meaning that if a story is too

tied to a specific cultural narrative over time, it tends to fall away. If a story has ancient

and eternal patterns in it, it stays alive regardless of time and

culture.

So we're turning to the original Grimm's version of the story, which is quite different from

what we might be familiar with in the Disney cartoons, or what turned out to be the rather disappointing

recent Disney reimagining of the story. So here we are with Snow White, and underneath the

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