An Apocalyptic Destiny for Mankind? A Jungian Response to Job and Spiritual Ecology

The Jungian analysis of the Book of Job presents structures similar to those found in contemporary discourse on spiritual ecology (guilt, anguish, apocalyptic threat, sense of trial, possibility of healing). It sheds light on the situation we are living in today and helps us to understand how the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung can be seen as a precursor of the rapprochement between ecology and spirituality.