The Bollingen Foundation was an educational foundation set up along the lines of a university press in 1945. It was named after Bollingen Tower, Carl Jung's country home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Funding was provided by Paul Mellon and his wife Mary Conover Mellon. The Foundation became inactive in 1968, and its publications were later re-issued by Princeton University Press.
History
Initially the foundation was dedicated to the dissemination of Jung's work, which was a particular interest of Mary Conover Mellon.McGuire, William (1982). Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton University Press: Bollingen Series, New Jersey).Bender, Thomas (1982). "With Love and Money," review of Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past in The New York Times November 14, 1982. Online version retrieved November 10, 2007. The Bollingen Series of books that it sponsored now includes more than 250 related volumes."Bollingen Series (General)," webpage maintained by Princeton University Press. Retrieved November 10, 2007. The Bollingen Foundation also awarded more than 300 fellowships.McGuire, pp. 311–328. McGuire gives a complete, alphabetical list of the Fellows including the year of the Fellowship and a condensed description of the project. These fellowships were an important, continuing source of funding for poets like Alexis Leger and Marianne Moore, scholars like Károly Kerényi and Mircea Eliade, artists like Isamu Noguchi, among many others. The Foundation also sponsored the A. W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art.
In 1948, the foundation donated $10,000 to the Library of Congress to be used toward a $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the best poetry each year. The Library of Congress fellows, who in that year included T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Conrad Aiken, gave the 1949 prize to Ezra Pound for his 1948 Pisan Cantos."The Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale," webpage maintained by Yale University. Retrieved Nov. 9, 2007. Their choice was highly controversial, in particular because of Pound's fascist and anti-Semitic politics. Following the publication of two highly negative articles by Robert Hillyer in the Saturday Review of Literature, the United States Congress passed a resolution that effectively discontinued the involvement of the Library of Congress with the prize. The remaining funds were returned to the Foundation.McGuire, William (1988). "Ezra Pound and Bollingen Prize controversy," in Poetry's Catbird Seat (the consultantship in poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937–1987) (Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). . Online version retrieved November 10, 2007. In 1950, the Bollingen Prize was continued under the auspices of the Yale University Library, which awarded the 1950 prize to Wallace Stevens.
In 1968, the Foundation became inactive. It was largely subsumed into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which continued funding of the Bollingen Prize. The Bollingen Series was given to Princeton University Press to carry on and complete. Over its lifetime, the Bollingen Foundation had expended about $20 million. Thomas Bender has written,
Bollingen Series A great many texts that were issued in the original Pantheon Books version of the Bollingen Series and in early editions by Princeton University Press are now out of print. The Princeton Press site does not provide a comprehensive list, and is missing some of the key texts in the series and some of the grandest in vision, e.g. the Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations series. A list of the works in the series, complete to 1982, appears as an appendix to William McGuire's book, pp. 295–309. The list below is based on McGuire's list and information appearing in the individual volumes, with help from the Princeton site and from The Library Congress Online Catalog.
Numbers 1 to 34 TitleVolume TitleAuthor(s)Translator(s)Editor(s)ISBNYearBollingen Series No.Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War CeremonialJeff King, Maud Oakes and Joseph Campbell1943, 19691The Devil's ShareDenis de RougemontHaakon Chevalier1944, 19452The Timæus and the Critias or AtlanticusPlatoThomas Taylor19443Prehistoric Cave PaintingsMax RaphaelNorbert Guterman19454The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American IndiansPaul Radin19455Myths and Symbols of Indian Art and CivilizationHeinrich ZimmerJoseph Campbell19466The Symbolic Goldfinch: Its History and Significance in European Devotional ArtHerbert Friedmann19467Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in EgyptMax RaphaelNorbert Guterman19478On the IliadRachel BespaloffMary McCarthy19479Psychic Energy: Its Source and GoalSub-title renamed Its Source and Its Transformation for the 2nd editionM. Esther HardingForeword: C. G. Jung1947, 196310The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of EvilHeinrich ZimmerJoseph Campbell1948, 195611The Limits of Art: Poetry and Prose Chosen by Ancient and Modern Criticsan anthologyHuntington Cairns194812Egyptian Servant StatuesJames H. Breasted Jr.194813Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American CollectionsThe Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, in 2 partsEdith Porada, Briggs Buchanan194814:1Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American CollectionsStamp Seals and Finger RingsnoneThere is no evidence that the second volume was ever published, nor that any work was done to produce a planned further three volumes. According to McGuire (1982), "Through the rigors of time, no more volumes of the Corpus were published, though the second volume is still in preparation."14:2Exile and Other PoemsSt.-John PerseDenis Devlin1949, 1953The second edition was in a reduced size format15Lectures in CriticismmultipleIntroduction: Huntington Cairns194916The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell1949, 196817Navaho Religion: A Study of SymbolismGladys A. Reichard2nd ed. foreword: Oliver La Farge1950,originally in two volumes 196318The I Ching, or Book of ChangesRichard Wilhelm into German, Cary F. Baynes into EnglishForeword: C. G. Jung; 3rd edition preface: Hellmut Wilhelm1950,in two volumes 1961, 196719:1Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and ChangeRichard WilhelmIrene Eber197919:2The Collected Works of C. G. JungViolet S. de Laszlo has produced two selections from these works under the titles The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung and Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C.G. Jung, both in 1991.Volume 1. Psychiatric StudiesC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1957, 197020:1The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 2. Experimental ResearchesC. G. JungLeopold Stein, Diana Riviere197320:2The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 3. The Psychogenesis of Mental DiseaseC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull196020:3The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 4. Freud and PsychoanalysisC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull196120:4The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 5. Symbols of TransformationC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1956, 196720:5The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 6. Psychological TypesC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull, H. C. Baynes197120:6The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 7. Two Essays on Analytical PsychologyC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1953, 196620:7The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 8. The Structure and Dynamics of the PsycheC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1960, 196920:8The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 9, Part 1 – The Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1959, 196820:9.1The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 9, Part 2 – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the SelfC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1959, 196820:9.2The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 10. Civilization in TransitionC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1964, 197020:10The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 11. Psychology and Religion: West and EastC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1958, 196920:11The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 12. Psychology and AlchemyC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1953, 196820:12The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 13. Alchemical StudiesC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull196720:13The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 14. Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry Into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in AlchemyC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1963, 197020:14The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 15. The Spirit in Man, Art, and LiteratureC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull196620:15The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 16. The Practice of PsychotherapyC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull1954, 196620:16The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 17. The Development of PersonalityC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull195420:17The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 18. The Symbolic Life. Miscellaneous WritingsC. G. JungR. F. C. Hull197620:18The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 19. General Bibliography of C. G. Jung's WritingsLisa Ress197920:19The Collected Works of C. G. JungVolume 20. General IndexBarbara Forryan and Janet M. Glover197920:20The Collected Works of C. G. JungSupplementary Volume A – The Zofingia LecturesC. G. JungJan van HeurckIntroduction: Marie-Louise von Franz198320:AReligion and the Cure of Souls in Jung's PsychologyHans SchaerR. F. C. Hull195021Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of EleusisC. G. Jung and Carl KerényiR. F. C. Hull1949, 195922The Hieroglyphics of HorapolloHorapollo NiliacusGeorge Boas195023The Psychology of ArtAbridged as The Voices of Silence: Man and His ArtMuseum Without WallsAndré MalrauxStuart Gilbert194924:1The Psychology of ArtThe Creative ActAndré MalrauxStuart Gilbert194924:2The Psychology of ArtThe Twilight of the AbsoluteAndré MalrauxStuart Gilbert195024:3The Dream of PoliphiloMary HottingerRelated and interpreted: Linda Fierz-David195025Philosophies of IndiaHeinrich ZimmerJoseph Campbell195126The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious RitualMaud OakesIntroduction: Paul Radin195127Paracelsus: Selected WritingsParacelsusNorbert GutermanJolande Jacobi, Foreword: C. G. Jung1951, 195828The Art of Letters: Lu Chi's "Wen Fu," A. D. 302Lu ChiE. R. HughesForenote: I. A. Richards195129Papers from the Eranos YearbooksSpirit and NatureJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim195430:1Papers from the Eranos YearbooksThe MysteriesJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim195530:2Papers from the Eranos YearbooksMan and TimeJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim195730:3Papers from the Eranos YearbooksSpiritual DisciplinesJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim196030:4Papers from the Eranos YearbooksMan and TransformationJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim196430:5Papers from the Eranos YearbooksThe Mystic VisionJoseph Campbell, Olga Froebe-KapteynRalph Manheim196830:6C. G. Jung: Psychological Reflections. A New Anthology of His Writings, 1905–1961C. G. JungR.F.C. HullJolande Jacobi and R.F.C. Hull1953, 197031African Folktales and SculpturePaul Radin, Elinore Marvel, James Johnson Sweeney1952, 196432Selected Writings of Hugo von HofmannsthalSelected ProseHugo von HofmannsthalMary Hottinger, Tania Stern, James SternIntroduction: Hermann Broch195233:1Selected Writings of Hugo von HofmannsthalPoems and Verse PlaysHugo von HofmannsthalmultipleMichael Hamburger, preface: T. S. Eliot196133:2Selected Writings of Hugo von HofmannsthalSelected Plays and LibrettiHugo von HofmannsthalmultipleMichael Hamburger196333:3WindsSt.-John PerseHugh Chisholm1953, 196134
Number 35: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts This is the only part of the Bollingen Series that continues to produce new volumes.