S2 Ep80. Answer to Job. Part 8. Appraisal. - a podcast by Alan Mulhern
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In this last episode of this miniseries I give Jung’s main argument and its pros and cons.
My feelings about the difficulties of the work are as follows:
Firstly, relevance. How much can it offer the modern world?
Secondly, isolationism - its removal from the other analytic disciplines.
Thirdly, certain inconsistencies which may confuse the reader.
Fourthly, contradiction - whether the archetype of the Self is the totality or a specific archetype.
Fifthly, the inherent difficulty of the text.
Some of its strengths are as follows:
1: Its passion and tremendous personal conviction.
2: Its roots in childhood experiences (visions, dreams).
3: Answer to Job has extra depth because of the number of esoteric traditions it is linked to.
4: Jung speaks with many voices, as it were out of the depth of many traditions.
5: The audacity of the text.
6: Jung uses a new voice – that of archetypal psychology combined with mythology and gnosticism.
7: Answer to Job reinforces Jung’s impact on the practice of psychotherapy.
8: Answer to Job has a deep theological critique of Christian and Judaic civilizations.
9: Jung insisted on the dangers of an apocalypse in our times.
10: Jung insists on the overarching metaphysical dimension to human existence.
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