THE SHAPE OF WATER: is it a new fairytale?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Shape of Water recently won the Academy Award for best film, captivating audiences with its dream-like images of other-worldly love. What can a psychological perspective contribute to understanding this film?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.0 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a young |
| 0:24.3 | an analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a young |
| 0:29.0 | and analyst on Cape Cod. So we thought we would take a look today at the film The |
| 0:36.7 | Shape of Water and look at what that might have to tell us about the psychological experience of marrying the inner world. |
| 0:47.8 | You know there's so much energy around this new movie, |
| 0:54.4 | shape of water and my clients are coming in. |
| 0:57.8 | They're captured by the images, by the romance of it, |
| 1:02.2 | by the beauty of the photography |
| 1:05.0 | that this has really struck a chord, |
| 1:08.0 | I think, in the collective. |
| 1:10.0 | It's a very mythological movie. |
| 1:14.0 | And Guillermo del Toro, who won for Best Picture in the recent Academy Awards, |
| 1:21.0 | has images and photography and the story itself and the monster or see God or however you |
| 1:29.0 | might wish to make meaning of it for yourself is a very vivid imagery that has certainly |
| 1:37.8 | captured something in our culture. It's a story that matters to us now. It's an old story and it's a new story. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, it is. It's very evocative imagery. I mean, I knew when I saw the trailer for it I was like I'm gonna see that movie and and I think that I knew that right away too because I could tell that it was you know pretty much a |
| 2:05.4 | retelling of my favorite story which is Beauty and the Beast. That is my favorite fairy tale also. How would you characterize |
| 2:10.9 | the story of Beauty and the Beast and that general genre of stories? |
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