The Red Book Dialogues: Gloria Vanderbilt and Psychoanalyst Andrea Hunt

Carl Jung’s Red Book inspired Gloria Vanderbilt to discuss her experiences of motherhood: from her hallucinations during childbirth, to the pet snake of her son, journalist and personality Anderson Cooper. Cooper loved the snake so much that he had it taxidermied after its death. She spoke with the Brazilian-born, New York-based psycholanalyst Andrea Fiuza Hunt…

Monsters Carrying the Feminine

Why do so many movies from the fifties have monsters/robots carrying these passive women? (King Kong may have started it in the thirties.) It looks like some kind of some monstrous/masculine energy combined with an almost comatose feminine. The fifties were a time of  fear of nuclear annihilation and Betty Crocker/Susie Housewife models of the feminine….