The Tower Annex: 1927

Jung,, friends and sometimes members of his family, would sail to an island in Lake Geneva and camp. Emma allegedly complained that it was uncomfortable, and Jung tried to buy the island to build a more comfortable family holiday home on. He was unable to buy it, and settled on the land in Bollingen, which at the time was known for its many mosquitoes.

Imagine how the course of his writing might have changed if he had lived on an island.

1920

1927

The Tower Annex

The feeling of repose and renewal that I had in this tower was intense from the start.

It represented for me the maternal hearth.

But I became increasingly aware that it did not yet express everything that needed saying, that something was still, lacking.

And so, four years later, in 1927, the central structure was added, with a tower like annex…..

From the beginning I felt the Tower as in some way a place of maturation a maternal womb or a maternal figure in which I could become what I was, what I am and will be.

It gave me a feeling as if I were being reborn in stone.

It is thus a concretization of the individuation process, a memorial aere perennius.

During the building work, of course, I never considered these matters.

I built the house in sections, always following the concrete needs of the moment.

It might also be said that I built it in a kind of dream.

Only afterward did I see how al the parts fitted together and that a meaningful form had resulted: a symbol of psychic wholeness.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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