Paul Bishop was welcomed as an Honorary Member of IAAP at the XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology held in August of this year in Zurich. This distinction marks official recognition of his comprehensive studies of analytical psychology and its place in intellectual history, including Jung in Contexts, Jung’s Answer to Job, the two-volume series Analytical Psychology & German Classical Aesthetics, and numerous other books.

Interview with Paul Bishop
By Misser Berg, DSAP, Denmark

MB: Congratulations on your Honorary Membership of IAAP and thank you for finding the time for this interview for the Bulletin.

PB: Thank you very much, Misser; I was greatly touched by the award of Honorary Membership of the IAAP, and it’s a pleasure to respond to your questions!

MB: You are well known in the Jungian community for your excellent contributions within our field. So, I would like to ask you when you became interested in Jung / Analytical Psychology, and what was it that captured your interest?

PB: That’s kind of you to say, Misser! Well, who hasn’t at some time been interested in dream interpretation or the I Ching? Just over Magdalen Bridge in Oxford is The Inner Bookshop, chock full of New Age and esoteric literature, or what we have learned to call ”rejected knowledge” or ”counter-normativity.” And chock-full of Jung — this was where, as a student, I first found the paperback volumes of the Collected Works (for some odd reason, the Princeton University Press editions, not the Routledge ones). In those days — as so often now — Jung was not on the curriculum, but Freud and Lacan were, in the guise of Literary Theory. I sense, however, that their day has passed, and that in the arts and humanities the discovery of Jung is just beginning. And a career in academia in the UK has over many years confirmed the truth of the Hermetic principle, ”As Above, so Below.” …

Click HERE to read Misser Berg’s full presentation of Paul Bishop.

Click HERE to watch the video of the presentation Paul Bishop gave at the Eranos Foundation Conference in 2022 Jung’s Red Book for Our Time