Paul Bishop, Ph.D. is a professor of German at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford University where he was a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Modern Languages, and spent a year as the Lady Julia Henry Fellow at Harvard. He earned his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1994 with the dissertation, C.G. Jung’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche, which was later published as the book, The Dionysian Self.

For twelve years, he held the position of Professor of German at the University of Glasgow where he was involved with language and literature course design and delivery, research, writing, and international speaking. In 2013, he was named the William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the university’s School of Modern Languages & Cultures. He underwent internal coach training, received a diploma in translation, and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Linguists.

Professor Bishop has worked widely on different aspects of analytical psychology and its place in intellectual history. His books examine the history of ideas with an emphasis on Jung, Nietzsche, and Ludwig Klages. He is the editor of numerous volumes including Jung in Contexts, The Persistence of Myth as Symbolic Form, A Companion to Goethe’s Faust, and The Descent of the Soul & the Archaic. He is the author of more books than I could possibly name. They include Jung’s Answer to Job, Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ, the two-volume series Analytical Psychology & German Classical Aesthetics, and his latest, Reading Plato through Jung: Why Must the Third become the Fourth? (books linked below)

In 2020, he presented the Zürich Lecture Series, Reading Goethe at Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung, at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich. (Note: This is somewhat cleared up during the interview.) And in 2022, he presented his essay, “The Red Book & Other Searchers for the Soul: The Case of Klages & Jung,” at the Eranos Conference, Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul in the 21st Century, published as Volume 5 in the book series by Chiron.

Professor Bishop is a former member of the Advisory Board of Spring: Journal of Archetype & Culture and is currently on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and the Special Advisory Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

This video interview was recorded on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. It’s 01:04:10 long and 68 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser (click the play button in the bar below) or watch the video edition on YouTube.

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SHOW NOTES

Professor Paul C. Bishop Professor, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Glasgow

Twitter/X accounts: Professor Bishop | Laura London

Demian: The Story of a Youth by Hermann Hesse

The Collected Works of C.G. Jung Individual volumes

The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Complete Digital Edition Revised & Expanded in 2023

Answer to Job by C.G. Jung

Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

C.G. Jung: Word & Image Edited by Aniela Jaffé (includes information on Jung’s grandfather being an illegitimate child of Goethe’s)

Goetheanum Rudolf Steiner in Switzerland

Zürich Lecture Series Published by Chiron

Urworte Orphisch / Primal Words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Orphic (1817), Via Hygeia (blog post)

Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939 by C.G. Jung (Princeton University Press, 2-volume set)

Jung’s Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Edited and abridged by James L. Jarrett

C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books by Sonu Shamdasani

General Index Vol. 20 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (752 pages)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé

Anthony Storr Amazon Author Page

The Journal of Analytical Psychology

Palgrave Pivot Enabling authors to publish at lengths of between 25,000 and 50,000 words - longer than a journal article, but shorter than a monograph, taking advantage of a swift and flexible publication process to dramatically reduce publication times.

Timaeus and Critias by Plato

Psychology of the Unconscious by C.G. Jung

Psychology & Religion: West & East Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung

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BOOKS

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The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche (Walter de Gruyter, 1995) Here is a link to the book on the publisher’s website.

Jung in Contexts: A Reader (Routledge, 1999) “Thomas Mann and C.G. Jung,” and “C.G. Jung and Nietzsche: Dionysos and Analytical Psychology”

Synchronicity & Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, & Jung (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)

Jung’s Answer to Job: A Commentary (Routledge, 2002)

A Companion to Goethe’s Faust: Parts I & II (Camden House, 2006) “Reading Faust Today”

Analytical Psychology & German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, & Jung – Vol. 1: The Development of the Personality (Routledge, 2007)

Analytical Psychology & German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, & Jung – Vol. 2: The Constellation of the Self (Routledge, 2008)

The Persistence of Myth as Symbolic Form: Cultural Studies & the Symbolic Proceedings of an International Conference Held by the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, Vol. 3, 16-18 September 2005 (Maney, 2008) “The Politics of Myth: Cassirer, Bachofen, and Sorel”

The Archaic: The Past in the Present (Routledge, 2011) “Introduction: A Brief History of the Archaic” and “The Archaic: Timeliness and Timelessness”

A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life & Works (Camden House, 2012) “Ecce Homo” and “Dithyrambs of Dionysos”

Critical Lives: Carl Jung (Reaktion Books, 2014)

On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche & Jung: In the Shadow of the Superman (Routledge, 2016)

Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Vol. 1 (Chiron Publications, 2017) “In a World That Has Gone Mad, Is What We Really Need…a Red Book? Plato, Goethe, Schelling, Nietzsche and Jung”

The Ecstatic & the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry (Routledge, 2018) “I must get out (of myself) more often? Jung, Klages, and the ecstatic-archaic”

Ludwig Klages & the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit (Routledge, 2019)

German Political Thought & the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way out of the Cave (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Reading Goethe at Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, & Jung Zürich Lecture Series, Vol. 3 (Chiron Publications, 2020)

Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ: A Critical Introduction & Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)

The Descent of the Soul & the Archaic: Katábasis & Depth Psychology (Routledge, 2022) “Is the only way up?” and “Katábasis in reverse: Heraclitus, the archaic, and the abyss”

Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul in the 21st Century – An Eranos Symposium, Vol. 5 (Chiron Publications, 2022) “The Red Book and Other Searchers for the Soul: The Case of Klages and Jung”

Reading Plato through Jung: Why must the Third become the Fourth? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Discourses of Philology & Theology in Nietzsche: From the “Untimelies” to The Anti-Christ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein (Chiron Publications, 2023) “In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology”