Gradually, through my scientific work, I was able to put my fantasies and the contents of the unconscious on a solid footing. Words and paper. however, did not seem real enough to me; something more was needed. I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired.
Or, to put it another way, I had to make a confession of faith in stone. that was the beginning of the “Tower,” the house which I built for myself at Bollingen.
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