mythic thought

is a system composed of mythemes, that is a system of the articulation of oppositions by myth (i.e. A machine for the suppression of time.).

Thus the mytheme becomes the equivalent of a tool of articulation (a distinctive feature) employed by a system of signification and meaning of another logical type (language). When we seek to discover what this other system is in Levi-Strauss, we find the category of 'mythic thought'. But mythic thought is already defined on the basis of the mythemes themselves. It is a system of the articulation of oppositions by 'a machine for the suppression of time' (the myth). (Wilden 1972a .pdf)

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mythic thought