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 nationalities. 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, mainly in the areas of Analytical Psychology and History of Religions
• Rare typescripts of seminars by C.G. Jung, originally distributed among his students
• Books with handwritten dedications by authors associated with Eranos
• Personal book collections, with handwritten notes from previous owners (e.g., Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Adolf Portmann, 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 institutional publications of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), with which the Eranos Foundation has operated as an Allied Organization since 2016