The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology
The Kore Goddess is an archetypal study of this overlooked mythic and psychic pattern. Also known as the Maiden or Virgin, the Kore personifies a state of youthful being in which a person becomes one-in-herself. In this book, Rossi applies Jungian depth psychology to ancient Greek imagery and trace the reemergence of this figure in contemporary individuation and soul-making. The value of kindling our relationship to the Kore lies it the ways that she brings us into a sense of vitality, sovereignty, as well as connection to the interior rhythms of life.
Published by Winter Press, an imprint of Spring Publications, 2021
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“Fresh, forthright, graceful, commanding—all adjectives Rossi uses in her sparkling and substantiated description of the Kore can be used to describe the writing itself. Kore hasn’t been so excitingly discussed since Proust’s dinner party in volume 2 of Remembrance of Things Past! Rossi’s work is original in a field that has been tossing off pieces about the Virgin archetype for years. Hers is a classically rooted, lyrical, engaging book that illumines the psycho-dynamics of childlessness with passion, showing us the gifts of a womanhood freed from maternity. This book is a gift to gender studies and imaginative feminism.”
Jung on Astrology
edited by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice
Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung’s thoughts on astrology in a single volume for the first time, significantly adding to our understanding of Jung’s work.
Jung’s Collected Works, seminars, and letters contain numerous discussions of this ancient divinatory system, and Jung himself used astrological horoscopes as a diagnostic tool in his analytic practice. Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the "sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
The selections and editorial introductions by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice address topics that were of critical importance to Jung―such as the archetypal symbolism in astrology, the precession of the equinoxes and astrological ages, astrology as a form of synchronicity and acausal correspondence, the qualitative nature of time, and the experience of astrological fate―allowing readers to assess astrology’s place within the larger corpus of Jung’s work and its value as a source of symbolic meaning for our time.
Published by Routledge, 2017
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
by Joseph Campbell, edited by Safron Rossi
Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.
While Campbell’s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs.
In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi—a goddess studies scholar, professor of mythology, and former curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library—collects these lectures for the first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and inspiration.
Published by New World Library, 2013