Answer to Job / C.G. Jung ; translated by R.F.C. Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bollingen series

Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks

Standardized Title:

Antwort auf Hiob. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 121 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

50th anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique importance of his work lies rather in his discovery and treatment of religious, or potentially religious, factors in his investigation into the unconscious as a whole and in his general therapeutic practice. In "Answer to Job," first published in Zurich in 1952, Jung employs the familiar language of theological discourse. Such terms as "God, " "wisdom, " and "evil" are the touchstones of his argument. And yet, "Answer to Job," perhaps Jung's most controversial work, is not an essay in theology as much as it is an examination of the symbolic role that theological concepts play in a person's psychic life.

Notes:

"Extracted from Psychology and religion ... vol. 11 of the Collected works of C.G. Jung. All volumes comprising ... number XX in the Bollingen series ..."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 109) and index.

ISBN:

0691017859

9780691017853

OCLC:

48835106

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