S2 Ep75. Jung’s Answer to Job. Part 3. The Drama between Mankind and God.

<p align="justify">Answer to Job has 20 chapters that formed a complex unity in Jung’s mind. This episode will summarize the first 10 of these. Themes include:</p> <p align="justify">Jung is indignant at the injustice done to Job. The unconscious creator needs conscious humanity so as to develop but, at the same time it opposes this development. The incarnation of God into man through Christ is a world-shaking transformation or objectification of God. God needs to become a man. The incarnation is not to make reparation for mankind’s sins but to make up for Yahweh’s damage to Job (i.e. humanity). There is another divine figure, Sophia, in the background. This is what Yahweh is lacking. Christ is an embodiment of the hero myth which is ubiquitous in history and very popular in the ancient world. The incarnation is insufficient to deal with the problem of evil because after Christ’s death there still was a need for salvation to be continued through the Holy Ghost. The belief that God is all good is simply not credible. The God image is a mixture of opposites.</p> <p align="justify">One can appreciate the confusion and indignation among traditional and orthodox readers. However, once one understands this is the gnostic Jung speaking through the voice of archetypal psychology then things become somewhat clearer.</p>