# Psychic symbol

- Id: `psychological_symbol`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/psychic-symbol/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `7611e2665c09665215d41f5df6861989132fa5c6a86f9df3ee14677fe715fe4e`

## Summary

A psychic symbol expresses a reality that conscious concepts cannot exhaust and opens several levels of meaning.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,802 passages across 74 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:nietzsche.human_all_too_human_1:b0014",
    "passage:nietzsche.birth_of_tragedy:b0010.s02",
    "passage:jung.psychologische_typen:section-0516"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "symbole",
    "symbol",
    "symbolisch"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 74,
    "passages": 1802,
    "thinkers": 23,
    "traditions": 11
}
```

## Related traditions

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        "id": "christianity",
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```

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```