Answer to Job

In this 1952 work, Carl Jung offers a dense, meditative reading of the Book of Job as a case study in the tension between human consciousness and the unconscious. He argues that Job's confrontation with a suffering he could not explain forced a reckoning with the limits of human understanding and the necessity of the divine becoming fully embodied in humanity to resolve that tension. The book weaves together Jungian psychology, Christian theology, and apocryphal texts to explore the integration of opposites and the evolution of consciousness.