The Bollingen Series began as the publishing arm of the Bollingen Foundation, established in 1945 by Paul and Mary Conover Mellon to underwrite the English-language Collected Works of C.G. Jung and a wider library of scholarship in mythology, religion, archaeology, art history, and depth psychology. When the Bollingen Foundation wound down its independent operations in the late 1960s, the series passed to Princeton University Press, which has carried it since 1968. The series now numbers more than two hundred volumes.
Focus areas
Notable series or imprints
- Collected Works of C.G. Jung (Bollingen XX)
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Depth orientation
Bollingen is the long-form scholarly spine of twentieth-century depth psychology in English: the canonical Jung Collected Works, Joseph Campbell's mythological corpus, and the cross-cultural archetypal scholarship that grew out of the Eranos circle.