Name: answer to job
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Author: Carl Gustav Jung
ISBN: 9780691150475

Type

Physical Book

Author

Carl Gustav Jung

Preface by

Sonu Shamdasani

Translated by

R. F. C. Hull

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780691150475

Synopsis "answer to job"

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.

Carl Gustav Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung was born in July 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, into a very religious family. He was a withdrawn and lonely child, who spent much of his childhood unable to relate to brothers or sisters. Partly because of this, he used to play with elements of nature and used his imagination to weave extravagant narrative lines about everything he experienced.

However, the unusual mental associations and the symbolism that populated young Jung's mind did not limit their reign to the hours he was awake. Jung began very early to have very vivid dreams with a strong symbolic charge. And, as expected from someone who dedicated a large part of his career to studying dreams, at least one of these dreams marked him for life.

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Sonu Shamdasani

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Sonu Shamdasani is an author, editor, and professor at the University College London. General editor and co-founder of Philemon Foundation, Shamdasani is a professor of Jungian history at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society of the said university, and vice-dean of the Arts and Humanities Faculty.

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