One of my Facebook followers sent a photo of a hilarious Amazon review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit my way. There have been so many mentions of that work as a sort of Bildungsroman for human consciousness that, quite frankly, I avoid that cliche. (Spirit isn't really some juvenile coming of age - since there's no other big-S Spirits around to provide it a culture to come of age within - that's just to start).
There definitely is a narrative running through this work - after all, it's about this complex, ongoing, dialectical development of human consciousness through its own history, right? And it arrives at a final point, the "end of history". But that's all very big-picture, universal.
What if you misread the work as about a particular individual? Then you'd get something like this perhaps:
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