Answer to Job: (From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)

by Carl Jung, R. F.C. Hull (Translator), Sonu Shamdasani (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691150475
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	11/14/2010
Series:	Jung Extracts , #585
Edition description:	With a New foreword by Sonu Shamdasani
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Sonu Shamdasani is editor of The Red Book and Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• TABLE OF CONTENTS, pg. v
• FOREWORD TO THE 2010 EDITION, pg. vii
• PREFATORY NOTE, pg. xi
• LECTORI BENEVOLO, pg. xiii
• ANSWER TO JOB, pg. 1
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 109
• INDEX, pg. 111

Editorial Reviews

"Praise from previous edition: This book breathes a passionate wish for the regeneration of mankind, integrating the destructive impulse rather than repressing it."

Times Literary Supplement

"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

From the Publisher

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.

British Journal of Psychology - A.M. Silver

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.

Encounter - Kathleen Raine

Praise from previous edition: This book breathes a passionate wish for the regeneration of mankind, integrating the destructive impulse rather than repressing it.

Time Magazines Literary Supplement

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

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