Horror as a Mirror: What Netflix’s MONSTER Makes Us See

This Jungian Life Podcast · Oct 23, 2025 · 1h 23m · transcript

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠The new controversial Netflix series MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story offers a window into the devouring mother archetype, a transformation fantasy gone horribly wrong, and the human capacity for monstrous behavior. Gein’s crimes inspired the Hitchcock movie Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. It challenges the audience to confront its fascination with evil and begs the question, where do the monsters hide in our own Psyche? To help us wrestle with these questions, we’re joined by Joey Pollari—actor, musician…