ABSTRACT
Analytical psychology had its origins in Zurich, Switzerland, and consequently this city holds center stage in the history of the Jungians. C.G. Jung was born on the Swiss side of the Lake of Constance on 26 July 1875, studied medicine in Basle, and moved to Zurich in 1900. From 1909 until his death on 6 June 1961 he lived and worked in the same house in Küsnacht on the Lake of Zurich. The tower he built at Bollingen, a small village on the Obersee, the continuation of the Lake of Zurich, was his refuge where he spent extended periods of introverted time. It is not the purpose of this book to give a detailed description of Jung’s life, as numerous biographies are available by authors such as Barbara Hannah, Sir Laurens van der Post, Vincent Brome, Gerhard Wehr, Paul Stern, Frank McLynn, Ronald Hayman, Deirdre Bair (in press), as well as Jung’s own autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Instead, the beginnings of analytical psychology in Zurich will be described in the first part, and events subsequent to Jung’s death will make up the second part of this chapter.
