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Podcast: Black Hoodie Alchemy
Episode: 58: CG Jung's Answer to Job - A Study of Existential Suffering
Description: For this week's food for thought, we are tackling psychoanalyst Carl Jung's work, 'Answer to Job'. Not only is it Jung's most controversial work, but it was also one of his personal favorites despite all the Christian spite it brought upon him.
This infamous book of the Bible sees Yahweh wager a bet with Satan over the life of one of Yahweh's most faithful followers. Job is not only pious and faithful but also very successful, seemingly without a reason to doubt God. But Satan poses: what if Job hadn't been so fortuitous? What...