Answer to Job
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Answer to Job (Antwort auf Hiob) is a 1952 book by Carl Gustav Jung addressing the moral, mythological and psychological implications of the Book of Job. It was first published as Antwort auf Hiob (Zürich, 1952) and translated into English (London, 1954).
Jung considers the Book of Job a landmark development in the "divine drama", for the first time contemplating criticism of God (Gotteskritik).
The author Joyce Carol Oates, in her review "Legendary Jung" (from her collections of essays The Profane Art), considers Answer to Job to be Jung's most important work.
[edit] Editions
- Rascher (1953, 1961, 1967)
- Walter Verlag (1985) ISBN 3530407682
- Dtv (1990) ISBN 3423351217, (2001) ISBN 3423351713
- English translation
- trans. R. F. C. Hull, in Psychology and Religion, v.11, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, (Princeton University Press, 1973) ISBN 0691017859
- Online excerpt of "Answer to Job"
[edit] Literature
- Paul Bishop, Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary, Brunner-Routledge (2002) ISBN 1583912401 review
