Professor Paul Bishop, Ph.D. | C.G. Jung & Goethe’s Faust | Speaking of Jung #152
December 11, 2025 at 07:39AM
Paul Bishop, Ph.D. is a Jungian scholar, professor, and writer living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.
After graduating from the College of St. Mary Magdalen at the University of Oxford he spent a year as a DAAD Scholar at the DLA 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.
For twelve years, he 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 the university’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures, where he currently serves as an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow.
Professor Bishop’s 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 Pamela J. Power (Dusk Owl Books, 2025).
His current project is a four-volume series of studies for Chiron Publications, examining the great canonical texts that exercised a decisive influence on the development of analytical psychology and the thought of C.G. Jung. The first two volumes – on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (discussed in Episode 135) and on Goethe’s Faust (the subject of this episode) have been published, and in the pipeline are a book on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and, rounding off the series, a study of The Red Book, seen as a contribution to the tradition we can call the Epic of Transformation.
At this year’s congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), Professor Bishop was awarded Honorary Membership of the IAAP, and a few weeks ago he was presented with a commemorative stone of this very prestigious honor while visiting Copenhagen to teach a class on The Red Book at the Jung Institute of Denmark. You can read an interview with Professor Bishop by IAAP president Misser Berg in their November 2025 News Bulletin (https://ift.tt/qgd6srb).
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Episodes with Paul Bishop:
Ep. 131: Reading Plato Through Jung – https://youtu.be/7-adOKqfvUE
Ep. 135: Parzival & the Grail – https://youtu.be/irSXO0MhhK0
Ep. 141: Flying Saucers – https://youtu.be/1HfQeHM99r0
Books:
Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Vol. 1: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation – https://amzn.to/4hb5nra
Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Volume 2: Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of Transformation – https://amzn.to/3VIv5uw
Goethe’s Faust (Norton Critical Edition) – https://amzn.to/48HkKVG
Memories, Dreams, Reflections – http://amzn.to/1LWkBh2
Jung’s Life and Work (“the protocols”) – https://amzn.to/4htg8or
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