Bollingen Completed
“It signified an extension of consciousness achieved in old age.“
Bollingen Completed, 1955
After my wife’s death in 1955, I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am.
To put it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the smallcentral section which crouched so low, so hidden, was myself!
I could no longer hide myself behind the “maternal” and the “spiritua!” towers.
So, in that same year, I added an upper story to this section, which represents myself, or my ego personality.
Earlier, I would not have been able to do this; I would have regarded it as presumptuous self-emphasis.
Now it signified an extension of consciousness achieved in old age.
With that the building was complete. I had started the first tower in 1923, two months after the death of my mother.
These two dates are meaningful because the Tower, as we shall see, is connected with the dead.
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