The Symbolic World
An atlas of C. G. Jung's Collected Works. Each connection between two concepts carries a verbatim quote of at most 25 words, with its volume and paragraph, so a reader can check it against the book.
Live atlas: symbolicworld.observer. Paper: docs/PAPER.md. How to cite: see CITATION.cff.
The graph holds 1244 concepts, 5132 relations and 6887 citations as of release v2.4.0. The live atlas grows as mining continues.
Three ways in
- Explore the atlas at symbolicworld.observer, or start from the ranked concepts index.
- Query the graph from the command line with
tools/query/kg_query.py.
- Dispute an edge: every citation in the atlas expands to a record and a button that copies a prefilled report. Open it as a GitHub issue.
Project status
Mining of the Collected Works has finished CW 5, 7, 8, 9i, 9ii, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16, and CW 6 chapters X and XI. The second pass over CW 12, 13 and 14 is complete as of v2.4.0. Issues get a reply within seven days.
Dispute an edge
Every citation in the atlas expands to its verification record and a dispute
button that copies a prefilled report. Submit it as a
GitHub issue — disputed
edges are re-reviewed with your objection attached, and outcomes (upheld /
corrected / removed) are published here. If a cited paragraph does not support
its edge, that finding falsifies the edge, publicly.
Repository map
| Path | Contents |
|---|
seed.json | The graph: nodes, edges, references with full verification provenance |
docs/PAPER.md | Research paper (methods, experiments E0–E10, results) |
docs/experiments/ | Every experiment: designs, keys, verdicts, adjudications |
docs/ASSUMPTIONS.md | 16-item assumptions register + community-verification protocol |
docs/LEGAL.md | Legal statement (quotation basis, licensing, takedown) |
pipeline/ | Construction pipeline: runners, transaction ledger (state.json), batches |
tests/test_graph.py | Integrity validators + 7 self-testing corruption canaries |
web/ | The atlas web app (Vite + Cytoscape) |
james/ | Second-corpus replication (James, Varieties): full reproduction package + visual graph |
manage.sh | Build / deploy / service management |
Copyright posture
The Collected Works texts are not in this repository and never were. Only ≤25-word
attributed quotations, § numbers, and page numbers are published, in reliance on
quotation and fair-use exceptions. The licence terms (MIT for the code, CC BY 4.0
for the dataset's original structure and metadata, the quotations excluded from
both) are in NOTICE, and the full position, including the takedown
commitment, is in docs/LEGAL.md.
Authorship
Damian Spendel, with AI collaborators: Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 (proposal),
Claude Fable 5 (verification, and the drafting of the paper), Gemini 3.1 Pro
(cross-vendor audit, and the checking of the paper's claims), Claude Code
(orchestration). See the AI-use disclosure on the paper's title page.
