Carl Gustav Jung, Seelenforscher und Gründer der analytischen Psychologie, baute im Jahr 1923 am Zürich-Obersee den Turm von Bollingen. Ein mittelalterlich inspirierter Rundturm, der ihm als Refugium zum Schreiben und um «In-Sich-Zu-Gehen» diente.
In einen für das Fundament falsch gelieferten, quaderförmigen Stein meißelte Jung griechische und lateinische Inschriften sowie astrologische und alchemische Symbole,
die den Individuationsprozess beschreiben sollen.
Der aus dem Lateinischen abgeleitete Begriff «Anima» bedeutet soviel wie «Seele» und ist fundamental in Jungs Archetypenlehre des kollektiven Unbewussten.
English: Anima Jungiana - The Jungian Soul
Carl Gustav Jung, "soul searcher" and founder of analytical psychology, built the Tower of Bollingen in 1923 at the Zurich-Obersee. A round tower inspired by the Middle Ages, it served him as a refuge for writing and for being able «to go inside himself».
Jung carved Greek and Latin inscriptions as well as astrological and alchemical symbols, which are to describe the individuation process, into a cuboid stone that had been wrongly delivered for the tower's foundation,
The term "Anima", derived from Latin, means "soul" and is fundamental in Jung's theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
"I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen". Carl Jung, Memories, dreams, reflections, p.212 (1973).
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