ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how a Jungian/post-Jungian take on the ways in which gendered polarities expressed in archetypal terms, and experienced in embodied and socialised manifestations of gender difference, get revealed in films. It concurs with Beebe’s focus on seeing characters in films as representative of complexes undergoing change, especially where contra-sexual influences are concerned. The chapter focuses on the fundamental centrality of the multi-coloured, shaded and textured palette of gender in terms of how gender pervades our sense of self, our relationships and our engagement with the cultural, political, social and ecological dynamics of the worlds we inhabit. Within exploration of how a bridged Jungian and post-Jungian perspective can illuminate the rigidities and fluidities of gendered experiencing, it deals with the question of what is real and what is unreal about gender.
