
Answer to Job
(From Vol. 11, Collected Works)
C. G. Jung(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 21. May 1973
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Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-691-01785-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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This book breathes a passionate wish for the regeneration of mankind, integrating the destructive impulse rather than repressing it. -- Times Literary Supplement 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, EncounterMore details
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English
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New Jersey
United States
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College/higher education
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
198 gr
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978-0-691-01785-3 (9780691017853)
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EDITORIAL NOTE v PREFATORY NOTE ix "Lectori Benevolo" xi Answer to Job 3 BIBLIOGRAPHY 109 INDEX 111