Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The infantile sexuality thesis, the polymorphously perverse, the Oedipus complex — Freud's 1905 founding work on psychosexual development
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Early-mid (after the Interpretation of Dreams)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Developmental-psychosexual time — oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital stages.
Space
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The bodily-psychological space of sexual development.
Matter
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The embodied sexual body as the substrate of psychosexual development.
Observer
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The developing sexual self; the psychoanalyst as the interpretive observer. No metaphysical framework.
Energy
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The libido as sexual psychic energy with its developmental transformations.
Information
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The personal-psychosexual history preserved through development; the analytic-clinical record.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The infantile sexuality thesis was scandalous in 1905 and remains controversial. Feminist engagement with Freudian sexual theory (from Karen Horney and Melanie Klein onward through second- and third-wave feminism) has been a central thread of subsequent critical engagement. The relation between Freud's specific clinical-empirical claims (largely rejected in contemporary scientific psychology) and the broader interpretive framework (continuing influence in cultural theory) has been a continuing interpretive question.