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ABSTRACT This work analyzes Teresa de Cartagena's treatise on spiritual counseling Arboleda de los enfermos based on a dialectical breakdown between the spatial dynamics (be them textual, public, private or symbolic) that appear in the text and the affective cognitions that said dynamics elicit. More specifically, the work shows how this affective cognition, when coupled with a series of linguistic strategies, allow its author to assemble a female rhetorical space amidst the rigid patriarchal framework of the time and, with it, to forge new and more complex ways of imagining herself as a female subject. Un trazo de la posible construcción retórica del árbol en el medioevo nos pondría de cara al hecho de que "with the emergence of new social categories in the late Middle Ages, the rhetoric of trees moves beyond what it means to forge a Christian identity to consider the role of a ruler and his subjects, the relationship between humans and nature, and the place of women in society" (Grimes). Web. 7 abril de 2015. <http://www.kukurarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/en_GB/insula-convent-oksholm/stories/atypical-north-jutland-benedictine-convent> Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve.