THE COSMOBIOLOGICAL BALANCE OF THE EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS - PHENOMENOLOGICAL STRUCTURALISM IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICAL THOUGHT

This paper points to a convergence of formal and rhetorical features i n ancient Chinese cosmobiological theory, within which is developed a view of the inner life of human emotions. Inasmuch as there is an exte nsive classical tradition considering the emotions in conjunction with music, one can justify a structural analysis of medical texts treatin g disorder in emotional life, since emotions, musical interpretation a nd structural analysis all deal with systems interrelated in a transfo rmational space largely independent of objective reference and proposi tional coordination. Following a section of ethnolinguistic sketches t o provide grounds in some phenomenological worlds recognized by Chines e people, there is a textual analysis of a classical medical source fo r the treatment of emotional distress. Through close examination of th e compositional schema of this text, it can be demonstrated that the s tandard categories of correlative cosmology are arrayed within a more comprehensive structural order.