Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise's 1991 Disney animated film in which Belle voluntarily enters the Beast's castle and her love transforms the cursed prince — Peterson's primary popular cultural example of the feminine perceiving and redeeming the masculine shadow.
Provides the most widely viewed popular instantiation of the Jungian anima's transformative function — the feminine principle that can perceive the positive potential within the dangerous masculine shadow and catalyze its redemption — making it a key pedagogical text in archetypal popular myth analysis.
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