VISITING THE HOUSE OF CG JUNG

Before leaving Kusnacht, I had the opportunity to visit
the house of CG Jung, where he lived with his wife and
five children from 1909 until he died in 1961. Here he
did some of his writing, as well as working with his
clients (analysands). From what I was told, he often
sat in the garden during his sessions, or would go out
on the lake in his boat with a client, as well as using
a more traditional consulting room.
One of the many things that makes Carl Jung unique
in the field of psychology is the unorthodoxy of his
practices. Therapists and analysts today are warned
about legal boundaries, and in so many respects are
forced to work within a strictly impersonal framework.
Jung believed that healing lay in developing a deeply
human relationship between analyst and analysand.
I was moved to walk in the rooms where he worked
for so many thousands of hours with his own psyche,
and with the dreams and individuation of so many,
many patients.

This is the view of the house that one has from the Seestrasse.
I had walked by the house many times, but this time I was
able to go up this walkway.

At the doorway....

Just above the door reads: Vocatus atque non vocatus non vocatus deus aderit
"Called or not called, the god will be there"

This is Jung's library. One is discouraged from taking photos of the books themselves,
but otherwise it's okay. That is a painting of Jung above the couch - not likely that
it hung there in his lifetime! and to the left is, I believe, a portrait of Freud.