A simpler version of my story theory

A simpler version of the story theory (see http://tap3x.net/EMBTI/j8clough.html ) is to use the semiotic square,

which you construct in the spirit of Claude Levi-Strauss' mythic binary oppositions in this order (ABCD):

A Problem D. Solution

(hex. A) (opposite hex. A)

C. Successful B. Unsuccessful

strategy strategy

(inverted opposite ( inverted hex. A)

hex. A)

By opposite I mean all lines changed from yin to yang or vice versa. By inverted, I mean turn the hexagram upside down. (It may be the same in some rare cases).

Each trigram has a mood as well as a personality. See http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/fengshui/fengsh2.html for characteristics. [Note that these also can be used as yin and yang forms of the five phases to understand

interactions between personalities.]

The mood trigrams are the inside of a hexagram, meaning the bottom trigram. The personality of the protagonist is the outside, meaning the top trigram, and it stays the same.

EXAMPLE

Now let's arbitrarily let the protagonist be a reluctant, scholarly type, trigram mountain (mt.), having a problem with anger, trigram thunder. (He may not necesarily literally be the youngest son).

Then the story square is

A. mt./water D. thunder/fire

(Hex. 4) (Hex. 40)

Youthful Folly Taking Apart or

or Enveloping or Deliverance

C. fire/mt B. water/thunder

(Hex. 56 ) (Hex. 3)

Sojourneying Difficulty

or the Wanderer at the Beginning

or Sprouting

The hexagram numbers were obtained from the 8x8 matrix at http://www.kheper.net/topics/I_Ching/hexagrams.htm

The hexagram meanings were obtained from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Changes#The_hexagrams

You need an I Ching book to understand the full meaning. The sequence ABCD is then the scenario for the mythic, primordial drama. One interpretation would be:

THE SCHOLAR'S DILEMMA

A. A scholar seeking tenure is on the brink of a dangerous abyss he has

foolishly created or stumbled across.

B. This closes the door for his progress toward that goal.

C. But a sabbatical opens another door. There he finds new ideas.

D. He analyzes these and publishes a landmark paper that delivers

the desired tenure.

Another approach would be to use the Jungian archetypes, where shadow is the opposite trigram of the personality, and so forth.