Volume 10, Issue 3, October 1997

This article explores the valuable insights that Jung's perspective can contribute to the interpretations of Job, and offers a critique by setting Jung's interpretation of this text in dialogue with a different interpretation of significant aspects of the Book of Job. The whole movement of the Book of Job can be interpreted in terms of a movement from the polarising of opposites to the coming together of these opposites into an inseparable non-dualistic reality. The whole creation, and Job himself after his encounter with God, combine inseparably the opposites of chaos and life, darkness and light. Cannot this also, then, be said of God the creator, in line with Jung's basic premise that God combines all opposites within the divine being?