Toegye, the most prominent korean confucian and Jacque Lacan,
the post-modern french scholar do not share at all their
space-time but in their spirit they have in common that they use
the topology(or schema) in the core of his vast philosophical
system. In particular, they desire to present clearly and
compressively the theory of nature and mind through the triangular
structure using X-schema(Chiasmus). Ten diagrams of Sage
Learning and ?crits are the publication which is dissolved in this
scheme-philosophy.
Toegye introduced the six X-shape in his Ten diagrams of Sage
Learning. Scheme X is a dialectical symbol, in which melt the
subject who is the condensation of mom and dad/heaven and
earth/yin and yang and heavenly circle also, and through this sign,
Toegye succeed to explain consistently the core concept of
confucianism such as xing[性] and ging[情] and weifa[未發] and
yifa[已發] in the conception ‘gyoung(敬)’. Toegye successfully tied
the nature and mind in the one ring by laying gyoung(敬) around
the center of gravity of the X-schema.
Lacan have established the X-topology in his ?crits through his
L, R , I schema. Like as Toegye had developed his scheme as
successor of Chu-tzu, Lacan also succeeded the problems of
Freud's Oedipus complex, which was the most problematic concept in Western intellectual history, and eventually overcome the
contradictions that Freud did not loosen by recalling the scheme
R. Lacan restores the desiring subject by calling ‘metaphore
paternelle' that is, moving the marginalized self who stayed in the
economy of imaginaire to the economy of symbolic through his
triangular diagram. The desiring subject obtains his identity by
encompassing the imaginary-symbolic-realistic world through his
enunciation. As a result, X scheme, which is across the East and
the West, is one eloquent words that prove the nature and mind
is constructed as mathematics so universally and self-evidently.
Also the fact is found that the human being, which means the
subject as I, enjoy a jouissance in the meaning of Lacan and fear
and revere(敬畏) in the meaning of Toegye.