The Bollingen Tower
Constructing a Jungian Sense of Place (Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies)
Book • 2025
Martin Gledhill's 'The Bollingen Tower: Constructing a Jungian Sense of Place' examines Carl Jung's Bollingen Tower through the combined lenses of architecture and Jungian psychology.
Drawing on archival research, personal visits, and Jungian scholarship, Gledhill argues that Bollingen functions as a 'restless place' where built form and psychic processes co-evolve.
The book traces the tower's iterative construction, symbolic carvings, and spatial typologies (cell, castle, tower) to show how place can embody individuation.
It situates Bollingen within Jung's wider domestic and psychic geography, comparing it to other Jungian towers and exploring themes of anima encounters and animism.
The work is both an architectural history and a reflection on how material places become repositories and agents of soul.
Drawing on archival research, personal visits, and Jungian scholarship, Gledhill argues that Bollingen functions as a 'restless place' where built form and psychic processes co-evolve.
The book traces the tower's iterative construction, symbolic carvings, and spatial typologies (cell, castle, tower) to show how place can embody individuation.
It situates Bollingen within Jung's wider domestic and psychic geography, comparing it to other Jungian towers and exploring themes of anima encounters and animism.
The work is both an architectural history and a reflection on how material places become repositories and agents of soul.
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