The modern revival · Jung to VALIS

The twentieth-century afterlife: Jung reading the Gnostics as psychologists, Jonas reading them as existentialists, Pagels reading them as dissidents, Philip K. Dick living one, and a steady stream of films and novels reaching for the demiurge as a plot device.

The pattern worth noticing is that each revival finds in this corpus exactly the thing its own moment already needed — and this app is not exempt from that, which is why the category-problem node sits so prominently in the pack.