gesang reviewed Answer to Job by Carl Gustav Jung (Routledge Classics)
This is not a work on theodicy or anti-theodicy
5 stars
This is from a theological point of view the most profound and difficult of Jung's works. And since it is from a theological point of view, it follows that it is the most profound and difficult of Jung's works.
Jung's reading of "the Job question" is extremely controversial and problematic, but in the final chapters, when he becomes to argue for the significance of Marian dogma and Pius XII's promulgation of the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, "minds are gonna blow". Jung indicates how Religion in work functions.
People tend to focus on Jung's reading of the divine drama that is related to theodicy, rather than the Marian dogma he defends in the final chapters. This is a grave mistake, since the metaphysics is in the latter, while his (anti-)"theodicy" is merely a hermenuetic attempt in the guise of psychoanalysis.