Paul C. Bishop, Ph.D. is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (a World 100 Top University).
He studied at The College of St. Mary Magdalen at the University of Oxford 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 graduated with a 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.
After holding the position of Professor of German at the University of Glasgow, in 2013 he was named the William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the university’s School of Modern Languages & Cultures, where he currently serves as an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow.
In 2010, Professor Bishop presented “Reading Goethe at Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung,” for the Zürich Lecture Series at the International School of Analytical Psychology (known as ISAP) in Zürich. 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,” which was later published as Volume 5 in the book series by Chiron Publications.
Professor Bishop has worked widely on different aspects of analytical psychology and its place in intellectual history. His research is focused on the intellectual background of both psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology. He is the editor of several titles including Jung in Contexts, The Persistence of Myth as Symbolic Form, and A Companion to Goethe’s Faust. He is also the author of over a dozen books including Jung’s Answer to Job, Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ, and Reading Plato through Jung which was the subject of our first interview in Episode 131. (books linked below)
Last year, his essay “I Don’t Permit the Winter: Death and Life in Goethe and Jung” was published in the new book, Confronting Death, edited by Jungian psychoanalysts Luis Moris (Ep. 90) and Murray Stein (14 episodes), and the first volume in Professor Bishop’s new series, Jung and the Epic of Transformation, was published in May by Chiron. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation is the subject of our talk today.
This video interview was recorded on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. It’s 01:07:59 long and 71.8 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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SHOW NOTES
Jungian psychoanalyst Ann Casement (Ep. 51 & 86) passed away on Jan. 8, 2025. You can read her obituary on the IAAP’s website.
🔊 Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Professor Bishop’s talk with Ep. Q10 guest Miguel Conner (Jul. 25, 2024)
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 131 Professor Bishop on his book, Reading Plato Through Jung: Why Must the Third Become the Fourth?
Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram von Eschenbach Read online or download for free!
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (Translated by Jessie L. Weston)
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Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Fully Revised)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Jung’s Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra by C.G. Jung (Abridged edition)
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung (First edition, published in 2009)
Proof of Life: Speaking of Jung Update 3-minute video recorded on Oct. 29, 2024
Memories, Dreams, Reflections C.G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé
The Original Protocols for Memories, Dreams, Reflections Forthcoming from the Philemon Foundation; Edited by Sonu Shamdasani, with Thomas Fischer and Robert Hinshaw as Consulting Editors
Confronting Death Editor: Luis Moris (Ep. 90), Consulting Editor: Murray Stein (14 episodes); with essays by Speaking of Jung guests Henry Abramovitch (Ep. 47 & 126), John Beebe (Ep. 109), Paul Bishop (Ep. 131 & 135), Joseph Cambray (Ep. 130), and Ann Casement (Ep. 51 & 86)
Narratives of Individuation Includes Professor Bishop’s essay, “Telling Stories: Jung’s Red Book as an Exercise in Narrative”
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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”
German Political Thought & 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 & the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit (Routledge, 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”
Jung & the Epic of Transformation, Vol. 1: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” & 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”
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Ann Casement (1938-2025) 💐