Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Feminist Interpretations/Jungian Dreams

This article is a feminist deconstruction of the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . It explores the underlying symbol system at work beneath a veneer of politically correct treatment of gender issues. This symbol system is read mythically from a feminist and psychoanalytic standpoint, exposing its deeply patriarchal and Biblical substructure. Themes such as the myth of the child redeemer, blood symbolism, and Eve and the serpent as found in Genesis are explored. The film is read as a societal dream in the Jungian sense, pointing to a collective mythology that responds to an oppressive view of the feminine.