CMN 2173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Binary Opposition
29 Mar 2016
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To fabricate a me, an identity, a subjectivity, the human being has to be subjected to rule of language. man does not speak of language, language speaks of man. We"re dominated by structures and we are the products of structures. He examines the myths of tribes from around the world. In comparing myths and in reducing them to their most elementary composites, he discovers that all myths put the same things in opposition. Levi-strauss touched upon one of the most fundamental structures of every society and he summarizes this in the myth of oedipus. The details are important but the structures are more important of these stories (masks) How different civilizations came up with ideas of things like pyramids etc. It shows elementary links to kinship common to all societies: prohibition of incest. Myth establishes a relationship between maternity and nature, woman and earth. Oedipus is torn between many kinship links that are not evaluated correctly.
