Universes of the Mind: the Jungian Archetype of the Self in the Works of Philip K. Dick and Valerio Evangelisti
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the influence of Jungian’s analytical psychology on Philip K. Dick’s early narratives and Valerio Evangelisti’ Eymerich Saga by focusing on the central Jungian archetype of the Self. “Universes of the mind,” a concept that comes from Dick, refers to the visionary power of symbolic images, namely, what Dick and Evangelisti tried to discover and investigate through their writing. By focusing on Dick’s Ubik and Evangelisti’s Cherudek, this thesis explores how Jung’s archetype of the Self manifests within the context of physics, mythology, numerology, alchemy and the history of religions in their novels. In both novels—and select other works by Dick and Evangelisti—Jungian theories of the archetypes influence not only the narrative structures but also the character dynamics. By moreover following Campbell’s hero journey—a theoretical journey based on Jung’s process of individuation—these writers represent the inner struggle of the individual to achieve psychological integration. Despite significant variances between them, the two authors take inspiration from Jung’s concepts of synchronicity and schizophrenia in order to represent the condition of capitalist society. These similarities between Dick’s and Evangelisti’s SF make it possible to identify a shared tendency in their use of literature as a way to represent the psychological effects of capitalism in western society.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".