Paul Bishop, Ph.D. is a Jungian scholar, professor, and writer living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.
He is a graduate of the College of St. Mary Magdalen at the University of Oxford and was a scholar at the German Literature Archive in Marbach before entering the doctoral program at Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. He was awarded the Lady Julia Henry Fellowship at Harvard University and spent a year as an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow at Marbach. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Oxford in 1994 with the dissertation, “C.G. Jung’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche,” later published as the book, The Dionysian Self (De Gruyter, 1995).
For twelve years, Dr. Bishop held the position of Professor of German at the University of Glasgow, and in 2013 was named the William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at their School of Modern Languages and Cultures, where he currently serves as an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow.
His most recent books include Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Nietzsche’s Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He has contributed chapters to such recent publications as, Ideas and Influences on Eranos, edited by Louise Belfrage (Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2025), Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture, edited by Thorsten Carstensen and Mattias Pirholt (Brill, 2025), and Where Is Soul? Psychology in Modernity, edited by Greg Mogenson and Episode 33 guest Pamela Power (Dusk Owl Books, 2025).
Professor Bishop has joined us on four previous editions of the podcast, including Episode 131 on is book Reading Plato through Jung, and Episode 141 on Jung’s essay on flying saucers. He also joined us for Episode 135 on Volume 1 of his series, Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation, and for Episode 152 on Volume 2, Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of Transformation.
He returns to us today to discuss Volume 3, Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and the Challenge of Transformation, released last week by Chiron Publications. The fourth and final volume, a study of Jung’s Red Book, is due next year.
This video interview was recorded on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. It’s 01:12:10 long and 69.3 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 our YouTube channel.
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Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche: From the “Untimelies” to The Anti-Christ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nietzsche’s Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Nietzsche’s “The Anti-Christ”: A Critical Introduction and Guide [Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche] (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works (Camden House, 2012)
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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 and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)
Jung’s Answer to Job: A Commentary (Routledge, 2002)
A Companion to Goethe’s Faust: Parts I and II (Camden House, 2006) “Reading Faust Today”
Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung – Vol. 1: The Development of the Personality (Routledge, 2007)
Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung – Vol. 2: The Constellation of the Self (Routledge, 2008)
The Persistence of Myth as Symbolic Form: Cultural Studies and 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 and Works (Camden House, 2012) “Ecce Homo” and “Dithyrambs of Dionysos”
Critical Lives: Carl Jung (Reaktion Books, 2014)
On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche and 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 and the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry (Routledge, 2018) “I must get out (of myself) more often? Jung, Klages, and the ecstatic-archaic”
German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way out of the Cave (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Narratives of Individuation (Routledge, 2019) “Telling Stories: Jung’s Red Book as an Exercise in Narrative”
Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit (Routledge, 2019)
Reading Goethe at Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung Zürich Lecture Series, Vol. 3 (Chiron Publications, 2020)
Nietzsche’s “The Anti-Christ”: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic: Katábasis and 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 and 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”
Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Vol. 1: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation (Chiron Publications, 2024)
Confronting Death (Chiron Publications, 2024) “I Don’t Permit the Winter: Death and Life in Goethe and Jung”
Nietzsche’s Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Where is Soul? Psychology in Modernity Edited by Greg Mogenson & Pamela J. Power (Dusk Owl Books, 2025)
Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture Edited by Thorsten Carstensen and Mattias Pirholt (Brill, 2025)
Ideas and Influences on Eranos Edited by Louise Belfrage (Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2025)
Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Vol. 2: Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of Transformation (Chiron Publications, 2025)
Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Vol. 3: Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and the Challenge of Transformation (Chiron Publications, 2026)