문의 은유 -『주역』 「계사전」에 나타난 고대 중국의 질료적 상상력-

Abstract

This essay is examining how the metaphor of Door appeared in The Great treatise of The Book of Changes and is comprising of five parts as below. The Ch.1 reviews Sarah Allan's application of the root metaphor concept to the ancient Chinese thoughts as well as the application of metaphor theory in the cognitive linguistics, that confirms the theory is valuable to study the ancient Chinese philosophy. The methodology of this essay presents a l’imagination matérielle. After analyzing several cases of the Door metaphor in The Great treatise, the Ch.2 reveals that it worked in a key logic of the text. The Ch.3 compares the nature of door space in many early Chinese texts and dictionaries, also tracks down the trace of the Chinese characters. The Ch.4 reveals it was the newest metaphor or logic that was difficult to find in previous similar texts. It also examines Lao-zi and other texts of the Huang-lao school and the Confucian, for finding something else to be. As far as I can find, The Great treatise had a similar world view with the Huang-lao school, that had proposed a trinity model of Heaven, Earth and Man. The Way and Door metaphor may be regarded as a metamorphosis of the World Tree. The Ch.5 is a conclusion: The Great treatise is able to be regarded as an important step in the transforming era of the Chinese philosophy and a creation of the new world view even, that is, to be a transition into the unique immanent world from the trisected transcendental world. Now, the human beings came to be citizens in this unique world that was in coincidentia oppositorum, not only temporal dwellers.