ABSTRACT
Jung's Answer to Job is an extended and complex metaphor. The work rests on the literary conceit that the relation of Yaweh to Job is that of the divine to the human and of the unconscious to the ego where alone the unconscious becomes selfconscious. Job's realization of the defective nature of the God he faced in Yaweh constitutes, then, the beginning of the end of the monotheistic epoch in the development of religious consciousness. In the opening interface between Job and Yaweh, the latter is portrayed unkindly as a personification of an unconscious state wholly divested of a discriminating consciousness. Further, in his work on Job Jung delineates the dynamics of progressive historical incarnation equating the process with individuation. Job recognized the antinomy in Yaweh, indeed was graced and cursed by this realization, but could not reverse its presupposition, namely, that the antinomy was between God as good and the human as evil.
