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Exemplar

Marcel Proust

historical · read by 2 of 6 traditions

How each tradition reads them

  • standard attribution in Jungian men's-work literature

    The Oedipal tie as the river every volume is written across.

  • Astrology

    Cancer

    birthdate within the sign's tropical range

    Born July 10 — the tidal memory made method; a cork-lined room, a dissolved madeleine, and the past recovered entire.

Where they sit on the lenses

Stage

  • Pre-initiation
  • Striving
  • Liminal
  • Integrating
  • Integrated

Affect

  • Gut · Anger
  • Heart · Shame
  • Head · Fear
  • Eros · Desire

Stance

  • Toward
  • Against
  • Away

Cluster coalescence

The archetypal tags above resolve into 2 clusters. Each cluster reads the exemplar in its own vocabulary; where more than one cluster surfaces, the exemplar themself is holding a structural tension.

Marcel Proust is read across divergent stances (Away vs. Toward). The exemplar holds a tension their readers cannot — which is often why they endure.

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