E14 The Great Whale: Answer to Job with Paul Bishop

I have landed the great whale; I mean Answer to Job, Jung wrote in a letter to Aniela Jaffé from Bollingen in May 1951. The book is indeed a mouthful and to help us understand and unpack this much-debated work of Jung, I have invited again Jungian scholar Paul Bishop to the podcast. Paul has written the most extensive commentary on the book, released in 2002 by Routledge as Answer to Job - A commentary.

Through this conversation, Paul helps us to contextualize this book in Jung’s overall psychological oeuvre and to understand the main arguments Jung raises in defense of Job. We discuss the reception of the work and Martin Buber's critique of Jung as a Gnostic and his powerful reaction to this “accusation”. We discuss how to understand Answer to Job in view of the publication of Jung’s Red Book.

We also continue to return to the key questions examined in the Biblical Story of Job. How can the suffering and injustice in the world be reconciled with the image of God that was taught to us? If God is good, where does evil come from?

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Music played in this episode is licensed under creativecommons.org: Ketsa - Dawn's dew & Enough.

Ps. I highly recommend you to seek out the latest publication by Paul Bishop, it’s entitled, Nietzsche's the Anti-Christ: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche) which was released by Edinburgh University Press earlier this year.

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