In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace & The Kore Archetype in Myth and Psyche

Oregon Friends of Jung in Portland

Join Safron for a Friday night lecture and Saturday workshop on April 12 and 13 at the OFJ. Both events can be attended in-person or via Zoom. For more information and to register please visit here.

In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace

Friday evening, 7-9pm

In this archetypal psychological exploration of the goddesses Ananke, the Fates, and the Graces we will consider how grace and receptivity to the archetypal necessity at work in the deep patterns of the psyche contributes to the discovery of meaning, which ultimately reveals the way our lives are lived in the lap of the gods.

The Kore Archetype in Myth and Psyche

Saturday workshop, 10-3pm

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.