This Jungian Life Podcast A Jungian Sense of Place: Bollingen and The Tower on the Marsh
Apr 2, 2026
Martin Gledhill, architect and Jungian scholar who wrote The Bollingen Tower, joins the conversation. He and Hilary Morgan explore Jung’s Bollingen and Christiana Morgan’s Tower on the Marsh. They talk about towers as expressions of soul, iterative, dream-like building, symbolic carvings and gardens, and how these places become restless, living works that hold psyche and ritual.
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Tower As Embodied Individuation
- Towers function as architectural embodiments of psyche, blending practical needs with symbolic meaning.
- Martin Gledhill shows Bollingen evolved iteratively, reflecting Jung's individuation rather than a preplanned manifesto.
Tower Never Complete Anecdote
- Hilary Morgan recalls Harry Murray saying the Morgan Tower was never complete and that revealed its link to an ongoing individuation process.
- She realized as a child living nearby that the tower's unfinished quality symbolized perpetual psychic becoming.
Dreams And Narratives Build Place
- Dreams and later narratives co-construct place; Jung's MDR account is a retrospective construction of Bollingen's meaning.
- Martin argues MDR condenses stages and that the tower's symbolism emerged through practice, not only narration.
