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Answer to Job: (From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts, 33) Paperback – November 14, 2010
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Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical text. Here, he confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced hell on earth and still did not reject his faith. Job's journey parallels Jung's own experience--as reported in The Red Book: Liber Novus--of descending into the depths of his own unconscious, confronting and reconciling the rejected aspects of his soul.
This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. Described by Shamdasani as "the theology behind The Red Book," Answer to Job examines the symbolic role that theological concepts play in an individual's psychic life.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication dateNovember 14, 2010
- Dimensions5.4 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-100691150478
- ISBN-13978-0691150475
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"Praise from previous edition: "Dr. Jung speaks with the authority and conviction of his professional insight into the mind of an age whose great longing is for some new heavenly marriage that shall produce a new divine child to save us from impending apocalypse.""---Kathleen Raine, Encounter
"Praise from previous edition: "Jung. . . .points out that the psychology of religion has two aspects, the psychology of religious persons and the psychology of religious 'contents.' He has himself, in this book, made a rare and original contribution to the latter.""---A.M. Silver, British Journal of Psychology
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- Publisher : Princeton University Press; Revised edition (November 14, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0691150478
- ISBN-13 : 978-0691150475
- Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #103,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #58 in Medical Psychoanalysis
- #88 in Popular Psychology Psychoanalysis
- #209 in Old Testament Bible Study (Books)
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."
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This is a sophisticated and quite complex book. I can’t even imagine trying to read it if I hadn’t been actively grappling with some of his concepts already, having just read Modern Man In Search of a Soul. Even so, I struggled to keep up. Be ready to have to google the definition of phrases and words constantly throughout the book.
Jung covers such concepts as God’s capacity to do evil, His amorality, His masculinity vs. femininity, and the extent to which God was/is a conscious being. Furthermore, he makes the case that God lost the moral high ground and was thus defeated by Job, leading to the need to essentially re-create Himself as a loving, moral, benevolent human (in Jesus Christ). If any of those concepts interest you, this is the book for you.
I hate to reduce Jung’s work into just a few sentences such as I have, but Jung has essentially rendered my mind as mush for the time being.
Final say: It’s a very difficult but very worthwhile book. Read it.
The ancient Hindu story of Sita and the Old Testament Book of Job have always struck a chord with me. Whever I hear someone cry out in anguish, demanding to know why if God exists, He lets good people suffer, I think of these tales.
Jung also poses these questions, and reminds us that if God created the Universe and all that is in it, that Satan is also one of God's creations and is one of His most favored children. Jung reminds us that God listened to Satan before torturing Job.
As Jung questions God and ponders his cruelty and also his kindness, he reminds us that Yahweh is not a human being. He is both a persecutor and a helper in one, and the one aspect is as real as the other. Yahweh is not split but is an antimony--a totality of inner opposites--and this is the indispensable condition for his tremendous dynamism, his omniscience and omnipotence.
The difference between good and evil is not one of kind, but of degree, like the difference between light and darkness. The same thing can appear as good and evil under different circumstances
I like this book. Jung makes perfect sense to me.
Kim Burdick
Stanton, DE












