The Eranos Foundation grew out of the conferences first convened in 1933 by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn at her estate on the shores of Lake Maggiore near Ascona, Switzerland. From the outset Eranos was conceived as a meeting-place between Eastern and Western thought and between depth psychology and the history of religions. C.G. Jung was a regular participant in the early decades, alongside scholars such as Heinrich Zimmer, Karl Kerényi, Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin, Gershom Scholem, and Erich Neumann. The foundation continues to host conferences and publishes the long-running Eranos-Jahrbücher series.
Focus areas
Programs
- Annual Eranos Conferences
- Eranos Yearbooks (Eranos-Jahrbücher)
- Casa Eranos study and conference site
- Visiting fellowships and lectures
Depth orientation
Eranos is the founding institutional home of the comparative-mythological and history-of-religions wing of depth psychology — the conference circle through which Jungian thinking, Hindu and Buddhist scholarship, Jewish mysticism, and Islamic philosophy entered into a sustained, decades-long conversation.