From Series 3 Episode 1 of Sex and the City

"Later that day I got to thinking about fairytales.

What if Prince Charming had never showed up?

Would Snow White have slept in that glass coffin forever?

or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, gotten a job, a healthcare package and a baby from her local neighbourhoud sperm bank?

I couldn't help but wonder. Inside every confident driven, single woman is there a delicate, fragile princess just waiting to be saved?

Was Charlotte right? Do women just wanna be rescued?"

In this episode of I Couldn’t Help But Wonder I discussed the idea of our insides (unconscious) and outsides (conscious) and whether our fairy stories entirely exist within us (as a Jungian archetype) or throughout us in a more Guattarian ‘machinic unconscious’ (within/without in an assemblage). Instead of asking what kind of archetype we are, we could ask ‘what would that do, and what else?’ In this way can we use these stories as part of our becomings? Might our Prince Charming and delicate fragile princess be with us in molecularised forms every day. How in our processes of our own becomings we have to learn to be our own primary caregiver in order to become….