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" If we keep in mind that mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution, the reason for these choices becomes clearer. We need only assume that two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced... "
Teoría de la interpretación: discurso y excedente de sentido - Page 99
by Paul Ricoeur - 1995 - 112 pages
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Structural Anthropology

Claude Levi-Strauss - 2008 - 444 pages
...that throughout North America his role is assigned practically everywhere to either coyote or raven? If we keep in mind that mythical thought always progresses...resolution, the reason for these choices becomes clearer. We need only assume that two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two...
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Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures

Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, G... S... Kirk, Regius Professor of Greek G S Kirk, F.B.A. - 1970 - 316 pages
...In this case, presumably, the message conveyed is very abstract, in tune with his own pronouncement that 'mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution'. He admits that in most cases the authors or reproducers of myths will be unconscious of the kind of...
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Structural Anthropology

Claude Levi-Strauss - 2008 - 444 pages
...that throughout North America his role is assigned practically everywhere to either coyote or raven? If we keep in mind that mythical thought always progresses...resolution, the reason for these choices becomes clearer. We need only assume that two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two...
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In Search of the Primitive

Stanley Diamond - 1963 - 54 pages
...Trickster personified as "coyote" or "raven" throughout North America? 2 s To understand this we must "keep in mind that mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of opposites towards their resolution. . . . And we need only assume," he tells us, "that two opposite...
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The Death Rituals of Rural Greece

Loring M. Danforth - 1982 - 272 pages
...contradiction or opposition in a strong form to its statement in a weaker or partially mediated form. "Mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution . . . two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two equivalent terms which...
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The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form

Kathryn Lynch - 1988 - 280 pages
...De planctu becomes mythic, and Genius a particularly mythic character. As Levi-Strauss points out, "Mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution. . , . Two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two equivalent terms which...
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The Emergence of Modern Humans: An Archaeological Perspective

Paul Mellars - 1990 - 576 pages
...transformation into anthropology, although without use of the term. Lévi-Strauss (1953: 224) says that mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution. This takes place by means of a successive series of 'permutations'. A law governing the entire permutation...
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Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus

Bernard Brandon Scott - 1989 - 484 pages
...interconnections and implications of a metaphorical system. The structure of mythical thinking is invariable.132 'Mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution. . . . Two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two equivalent terms which...
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Born in the U. S. A.: The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial ...

Timothy E. Scheurer - 2007 - 300 pages
...in reconciling conflicting cultural ideologies, beliefs, and philosophies. Claude Levi-Strauss noted "that mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution" (1963, 221). It is this ability of myth to reconcile or resolve conflict and contradiction that makes...
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Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe

Gregory Allen Schrempp - 1992 - 244 pages
...vi-Strauss's theoretical writings consists in the notion, broached in "The Structural Study of Myth," that "mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution" (1967:221). The notion continued to inform centrally all LeVi-Strauss's later researches on myth, including...
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