Dual Symbolic Classification, the Primary Emotions,and Mandala Symbolism

Abstract

The Durkheim‐Mauss claim that emotions play a causal in the emergence of dual symbolic classification schemes of dual social organizations is evaluated by reanalysis of their three case studies of dual symbolic classification, divinatory compass" of trigrams incorporated in ancient China's I Ching. Because their analysis lacked a classification the emotions, their claim has not been investigated. In paper we emend to the Durkheim‐Mauss theory Plutchik's psychoevolutionary classification of the primary emotions. It is found that the primal arrangement of eight trigrams and the eight primary emotions of Plutchik's emotions "wheel" are structurally coincident: both are based four pairs of opposites arranged by similarity in identical manner. These twofold/fourfold symbols are further described as Jungian archetypes of wholeness and totality.