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The Kore Archetype in Myth and Psyche
April 13, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
The Kore, Greek for Virgin, is a mysterious figure. Youthful and elusive, the Kore personifies an archetypal state wherein a person becomes one-in-herself.
In C.G. Jung’s essay “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (1951), he makes the astonishing statement that the Kore is a Self-figure for women, and has a power that is equivalent to that of the Mother. These two rarely discussed ideas have significance for women’s psychology, and have direct bearing upon the development of feminine consciousness in both women and men. Who is this figure that is accorded such psychological power and significance?
Drawing from her book The Kore Goddess: A Mythology and Psychology (2021), in this lecture Dr. Safron Rossi will draw out the pattern of the Kore through archaic Greek statues and the myths of Persephone, Artemis and Hestia in order to discern how and where the Kore appears in life and plays a critical role in individuation.
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Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program. Formerly she was Curator of the Joseph Campbell and James Hillman archives. Safron is the author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology, editor of Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), and co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017). Safron is also a scholar-practitioner of archetypal psychological astrology.
