relation family
symbolization
assigned, not verified What this family covers, what it fails to cover, and every relation string in the graph that lands in it. A family is assigned: two models read the definitions document and named the same kind of relation, or a person ruled where they did not. Verified is the other layer: a quote checked letter-exact against its paragraph and judged by a model of a different family. That was already done before any of this began.
Definition
The subject is a symbol of the object in Jung's strict sense: "the best possible description or formulation of a relatively unknown fact" (CW 6, Definitions, s.v. Symbol) — not a conventional sign. Directionality test: the OBJECT is the less formulable term; the subject is the image carrying it.
Boundary: not manifestation (there the SUBJECT is the less formulable term showing itself — the direction inverts); not correspondence (two knowns); not personification (a figure enacting).
Inverse pair declared: symbolizes / symbolized-by.
Relation strings that land here
symbolizes 99represents 20signifies 18expresses 13stands-for 7symbolized-by 7amplified-by 4is-symbol-of 3is-a-symbol-of 2is-an-allegory-of 2is-symbolized-by 2refers-to 2and 32 more, 32 relations between themseeds: the examples the definition names
- quaternity symbolizes wholeness 9ii §59
- fish symbolizes soul 9ii §187
- sol is-classical-symbol-for the-self 12 §108
declared pairs
symbolizes / symbolized-by: inverse, transcribed from 1. symbolization (line 371)
pending a ruling: items carrying a string this family covers
Checked against readers of Jung
Checked against 8 works of scholarship: across the sample, 8 of 16 treated items agreed with our family. This family: 3/3 agreed, 0/3 disagreed, 0/3 split, 1 not treated.the whole table
| family | agrees | disagrees | split | not treated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| archetypal-identity (incl. 26) | 0/3 | 1/3 | 2/3 | 2 |
| correspondence (incl. 27) | 2/3 | 1/3 | 0/3 | 2 |
| symbolization | 3/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 1 |
| doctrinal-attribution | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/2 | 1 |
| amplification | 0/3 | 3/3 | 0/3 | 0 |
| controls (personif., union) | 2/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0 |
| All | 8/16 | 6/16 | 2/16 | 6 |
definition and seeds quoted from docs/FAMILY_DEFINITIONS.md v0.7.2;
external-validity row from docs/experiments/external_validity_2026-08/results.json (report v3, closed 2026-08-12);
built 2026-09-05
These families are this project's classification. They are calibrated inside this repository, checked once against outside scholarship on a small sample, and endorsed by nobody. What the layer records is how we sorted relations Jung wrote: a map of assertions, not a reading of him.