MJA Lecture: "The Kore Archetype" by Safron Rossi, PhD

The Minnesota Jung Association welcomes Safron Rossi, PhD presenting "The Kore Archetype" on Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 1:00-3:00pm Central Time via Zoom.

Description: 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 myth in order to discern how and where the Kore appears in life and plays a critical role in individuation.

Bio: Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program, teaching courses on mythology, archetypal astrology, and scholarly praxis. She is also a consulting archetypal astrologer. Author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology (2021), co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017) and editor of Joseph Campbell's Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), Safron has published articles in Jungian, Archetypal, and astrological journals and lectures across the US and internationally. Website: www.thearchetypaleye.com