E05 Imitatio Faust: Jung, Goethe and the question of secular redemption with Paul Bishop

Paul Bishop is a renowned British scholar who has spent the last twenty-five years researching and writing on the foundational relationship between C.G Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche and Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In this episode, we dive into Jung’s relationship to both these figures but with a special emphasis on the latter and the legend Faust as an archetypal motif.

Goethe's Faust struck a chord in Jung and its foundational story when trying to understand Jung’s own inner struggles, motivations, creative contributions, and wrestling with the religious question. We explore an “Imitatio Fausti” in contrast to an “Imitatio Christi” and the seeking for psychological transformation. How the question of finding redemption in a secularized world is portrayed in the story Faust, and transmitted through Jung’s life and psychology.

Contents of this video

0:00 Intro
2:12 How I came to Carl Gustav Jung
6:00 The situation of Jung and psychoanalysis in the Academia
8:31 Friedrich Nietzsche's as a central figure for Jung
10:55 Wolfgang Goethe as the illegitimate great grandfather of Jung
13:13 Why don't you go and read Faust one of these days
18:25 Understanding "the mothers" and Mephistofeles
29:48 Imitatio Faust - A pattern of redemption?
39:45 The shrine of Philemon - The redemption of Faust
47:50 Christianity and/or a religion for my own private use
53:46 Islamic inspiration in the Red Book and the theme of surrender
56:24 "I don't need to believe I know" and Bishops understanding of that


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