Demeter, Hecate, Persephone

Through the Demeter-Persephone myth, this article attempts to distill the specificity of the role of the archetype of the Mother in feminine individuation. « The relation with the mother has to die, and of that, one nearly dies oneself », wrote Jung in The Metamorphoses. But in order for life to follow, one must reunite with the Mother after having lost her, and make the transition from the imaginary to the symbolic Mother, whom Pierre Solié knew to restore to her rightful place, at the Father’s side.