Ascona · Lago Maggiore · Casa Gabriella
Jahrbuch · 1933 — 1988 · the annual meeting
A meal to which each guest brings a share.
A yearly lakeside gathering where Jungian depth psychology, comparative religion, and myth cross-pollinated for half a century.
Republic & Salon — a circle, held open for fifty-five years.
Eranos was an annual gathering held from 1933 beside Lake Maggiore in Ascona, convened by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn as a meeting place for the study of myth, religion, and the psyche.
For decades it drew a remarkable transdisciplinary company — Carl Jung above all, but also Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin, Gershom Scholem, Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell — who lectured and argued across the boundaries of Jungian psychology, comparative religion, Eastern and esoteric traditions, and mythology.
Published in its yearbooks, the Eranos conversation shaped archetypal psychology, comparative religion, and the twentieth-century study of myth. It stands as a durable model of the interdisciplinary salon, held together for half a century by a place, a rhythm, and a shared fascination.
A hostess-curated annual salon-conference sustaining a decades-long conversation; continuity and setting mattered as much as any single meeting.
Beneath the world’s religions and myths lie shared archetypal structures of the psyche; interdisciplinary dialogue can recover this perennial symbolic language.
What drew the circle together, and what pulled it apart.
A lakeside salon that gathered the century’s mythographers yearly to map the archetypes beneath all religions.
A hostess-curated annual salon-conference sustaining a decades-long conversation; continuity and setting mattered as much as any single meeting.
Shaped comparative religion, archetypal psychology, and myth studies (Eliade, Corbin, Campbell’s lineage); a hidden engine of twentieth-century thought about symbol and the sacred.
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