C. G. Jung and God

Abstract

Jung grappled with the experience of God over the course of his life. In later years, when asked whether he believed in God, he replied, “I know.” This essay traces Jung’s understanding of God as it developed during the years he labored on The Red Book: Liber Novus, and as further elucidated in his private contemporaneous journals of his experiences, The Black Books: 1913 to 1932. The visionary events recounted there are the primal source of Jung’s declarations about the nature of divinity audaciously pronounced in his controversial 1952 publication, Answer to Job.