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.