ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the film snow white and the huntsman which is at face value a fairly typical mainstream narrative film, albeit one that is an adaptation of a well-known fairy story. It argues that through the introduction of new elements, snow white and the huntsman succeeds, albeit unwittingly, in presenting a psychological rather than a narrative drama. The film explores some of the complex ambiguities that are concerned with human identity and particularly sexuality. The chapter suggests that the character of Snow White is both feminine and masculine and that the film depicts her psychological development into a semi-androgynous sense of engendered identity. Writer June Singer suggests androgyny as an unconscious state is threatening and disorientating precisely because it places one outside cultural norms. These outmoded aspects of the contrasexual theory need to be left well and truly behind. Jung's own writing at this time is riddled with contradictions as he works on refining his theory of individuation.
