🗣The subtle art of Structuralism
- Aligned Lines
- Dec 13, 2020
- 1 min read
The concept of having an underlying structure to any module in existence refers to the core beliefs of structuralism.
One can see structure in the systems of control governed by institutions like hospitals and education systems including the essence of an organized community perhaps even a religion that has a certain structure engraved deep within.
Though such systems are created by manifestations of the patterns of its past, they are going to be morphed and influenced by certain events throughout time like the butterfly effect. And hence varying individual ideas seem to thrive in its moonlit reality.
Hence the concept of Signifier [a literal word] and the signified [the interpretation of that word] emerges forming binaries that are paired opposites in its theory and practice.
Anthropologist-Claude Lévi-Strauss

was all about mythology and in his book- Structural Anthropology, states that there is an unconscious mental structure that lays the foundation for human development by guiding us through language and primeval storytelling and that I think is probably because of the structure that a language creates in and for itself; a mode of understanding the analytical behavioral patterns in its root essence.




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