Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary
by Paul Bishop
2021-06-04 11:28:12
Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary
by Paul Bishop
2021-06-04 11:28:12
Greeted with controversy on its publication,Answer to Jobhas long been neglected by many serious commentators on Jung. This book offers an intellectual and cultural context for C.G.Jung''s 1952 publication.InJung''sAnswer to Job:A Commentary,the auth...
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Greeted with controversy on its publication,Answer to Jobhas long been neglected by many serious commentators on Jung. This book offers an intellectual and cultural context for C.G.Jung''s 1952 publication.
InJung''sAnswer to Job:A Commentary,the author argues that such neglect is due to a failure to understand Jung''s objectives in this text and offers a new way of reading the work. The book placesAnswer to Jobin the context of biblical commentary, and then examines the circumstances surrounding its compositions and immediate reception. A detailed commentary on the work discusses the major methodological presuppositions informing it and explains how key Jungian concepts operate in the text.Jung''sAnswer to Job:A Commentaryunravels Jung''s narrative by reading it in the chronological order of the biblical events it analyses and the book to which it refers, offering a comprehensive re-reading of Jung''s text. An original argument put across in a scholarly and accessible style provides an essential framework for understanding the work.
Whilst taking account of the tenets of analytical psychology, this commentary underlinesAnswer to Job''smore general significance in terms of cultural history. It will be invaluable to students and scholars of analytical psychology, the history of ideas, intercultural studies, comparative literature, religion and religious studies.
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