On Relations Between Jung And The Bible

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) is a famous analytical psychologist and psychiatrist of Switzerland. His theory has been influential in the field of psychology, psychiatry and clinical medicine, as well as anthropology, religion, art, philosophy and literature. Around 1930, he scored his success with his Association Method in his first work Studies in Word Association. From then on, Carl Gustav Jung and his theory attracted attentions and studies of many people over the world. In the west, the study on relationship of Jung and the Bible has been started and taken shape, but there still with some deficiencies. In our country, due to the pinch of related data, there isn't any research on this project. This text analyzes the relationship between Jung himself, his theory and the Bible and illuminates the influence the Bible on Jung, his theory on the Bible's text reaching in order to open a door for research on the Bible in China.The text contains three parts: preface, body and epilogue.The introduction sums up present study situation on Jung and the Bible firstly, introduces the history of psychological criticism of the Bible. Secondly summarizes his theory, then, establishes the meaning and points of view of the study at last.The body of the text includes four chapters.Chapter 1: Research into the original relationship between Jung and the Bible, which has two parts. The first part, Jung's life, explains the history Jung contacted with the Bible. It commences from the both sides of objective and subjective to point out the influence of religion growth environment and unique personal experience on Jung. The second part states Jung's attitude to the Bible.Chapter 2: Expounds the particularity of the relationship between Jung and the Bible and points out that the Bible is conscious project and unconscious projection of Jung's analytical psychology; it intensively explains the influence that the Bible exerted on Jung's theories of psychology; then shows the readers Jung's the practice of the Bible criticism.Chapter3: the Bible criticism in the view of Jung. It analyzes the archetype and symbol in the Bible under the reference to Jung's theory.Chapter 4: Jung's enlightenment. Firstly, gives a sketch of the significance of the two methods—enlargements and positive imagination which invented by Jung . Secondly, deciphers the Eden by using some of Jung's theory to reveal the commutative explanation of Jung's theory and the Bible.The epilogue summarizes the writer's standpoints, and indicates the relationship of Jung and the Bible, which will contribute to either further understanding on Jung's theory and the Bible. All of the results will make a great effective on interdisciplinary study of Comparative Literature.