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.
Psychological Types
The eight psychological types — Jung's 1921 systematic statement of his theory of personality, including the introversion-extraversion distinction
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Psychological Types (Mid (the major systematic work after his 1912-13 break with Freud)) |
|---|---|
| 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
Psychological Types
Developmental time of personality — types emerge through individuation.
Space
Psychological Types
The psychological space of the individuated person; the broader cultural space of typological patterns.
Matter
Psychological Types
Embodied psychological life as the substrate of typological differences.
Observer
Psychological Types
The eight psychological types as varieties of observer — plural, embodied. The deeper Self as cosmic-ordering principle.
Energy
Psychological Types
The libido as psychic energy with directional flow (introversion-extraversion); the four functions as channels.
Information
Psychological Types
The accumulating clinical and cultural-historical record of personality patterns.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The 1912-13 break with Freud is the central biographical event behind Psychological Types — the book partly maps Jung's and Freud's typological difference. Subsequent personality psychology has substantially modified Jung's framework — Big Five replaced the Jungian-MBTI typology in scientific psychology, while MBTI has remained popularly influential. Jung's mystical-spiritual dimensions (developed more fully in subsequent works) remain controversial in scientific psychology.