Library collection

The Eranos Library, located in the historical Gabriella House, includes about 20’000 volumes. It was firstly created thanks to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn’s donation of her own library to the Foundation. It gradually grew up thanks to subsequent gifts and purchases. The Library became an organic and unique collection, crossing areas of knowledge such as depth psychology, history of religions, philosophy, anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, Eastern studies, history of Eastern and Western mysticism and esotericism, German, English, French, and Italian literature, musicology, history of art, as well as natural sciences. Currently, it still represents a reference point for scholars from different disciplines and of all ages, who come from all over the world and stay at our historic lakeside facilities. In particular, its catalogue includes:

• The complete collection of the Eranos Yearbooks, published under the auspices of the Eranos Foundation with various publishers (75 volumes in each series, from 1933 to 2021);
• The complete collection of the Bollingen Series, published under the auspices of the Bollingen Foundation (100 volumes, some of which consist of multiple tomes, from 1943 to 2014);
• Scientific books published between the 19th and 21st centuries;
• Old books, published before the 19th century;
• Collections of scholarly journals, predominantly in the subject areas of Analytical Psychology - with special reference to the complete series of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (1955-to date, over 270 edited print issues), Spring Journal. An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought [1941-1988] / Spring. A Journal of Archetype and Culture [1988-2015] (1941-2015; 75 print issues edited from 1960 to 2015 are available) and L'immaginale. Rassegna di Psicologia Immaginale (1983-1988, 31 print issues) -, of the history of religions, and symbolism studies;
• the IAAP Congress Proceedings series of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, published triennially in Zurich from 1983 to the present (the 14 print issues edited to date are available);
• Rare typescripts of seminars by C.G. Jung, originally distributed among his students and participants in his classes (including Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn);
• Books with handwritten dedications by authors associated with Eranos;
• Personal book collections, with handwritten notes from previous owners (e.g., Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Adolf Por,mann, Alwine von Keller, and Emma Hélène von Pelet-Narbonne);
• Monographic library holdings (e.g., the complete works of Victor Zuckerkandl and Murray Stein, upon their donation, and Dora Kalff, upon the donation of Martin Kalff);
• Scholarly literature on the history of Eranos (monographs, articles, book chapters, collective volumes, M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations, from 1935 to the present, constantly updated).

The collection is now being expanded as part of an important initiative for restoration, preservation, and enhancement of the Foundation’s archival and library heritage.