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.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The mature accessible introduction to Jungian analytical psychology — depth psychology applied to the modern spiritual condition
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Mid-late (mature systematic statement)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-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 | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The developmental time of individuation; the broader historical time of modern spiritual condition.
Space
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The psychological space of the individuating self; the cultural-historical space of modernity.
Matter
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Embodied psychological life; the body as part of the individuation process.
Observer
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The individuating self engaging the unconscious — embodied, plural. The Self (capital S) as cosmic-ordering principle.
Energy
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The libido / psychic energy with its archetypal patterns of expression.
Information
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The accumulated cultural-archetypal patterns of the collective unconscious.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Jung's 1933-39 engagement with Nazi-period psychology has been continuously controversial — some commentators charging Nazi sympathies, others defending Jung's political conduct as pragmatic. The 1934 Eranos Conferences he helped found became a major continuing forum for depth-psychological and religious-comparative engagement. The scientific status of Jungian archetypes has been continuously debated.