📍Seestrasse 228, 8700 Küsnacht, Switzerland
1909 – 1961“I grew up in parsonages in the Swiss countryside near Basel, near the Rhine Falls and later at Klein-Hüningen, the son of a pastor whose faith I could not share and a mother with an uncanny, divided personality. I was a lonely, imaginative child who carved a little wooden manikin and hid it in the attic, and I had vivid dreams that I spent my life trying to understand. I studied medicine in Basel and became a psychiatrist at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich. In 1908 my wife Emma and I built our house on the shore of Lake Zurich at Küsnacht, at Seestrasse 228, and we moved in the following year. It was a large, stately house with gardens running down to the water, and above the door I carved the Latin saying Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit, called or not called, the god will be present. Here we raised our five children, and here I saw patients in my study, surrounded by my library of books on alchemy, mythology and religion. Emma became an analyst herself and worked alongside me. After my break with Freud, I went through years of inner turmoil, recording my dreams and visions in the Red Book, and much of that work was done in this house. I sailed on the lake, carved stone and, from 1923, built my tower at Bollingen further along the shore as a retreat. But Küsnacht remained our family home for more than fifty years. The house is now the C. G. Jung House Museum, with my study and library kept as they were.”
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