Definitions HQ

Structuralism (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the same error as functionalism: it mistakes stating the problem for solving it, dazzled by the homologies it uncovers.

Structuralism (n.) reads ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠every myth's "radical elimination" as a logical tidying of space — and never notices it is describing a lynching.

Structuralism (n.) sacrifices ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to its all-powerful order of differences, "always already" given, everything in Freud that touches imitation, doubles and the scapegoat.

Structuralism (n.) sees ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the all-against-one of collective violence as one opposition among many, so it cannot see what has vanished in a transformation.

Structuralism (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its best is what everyone does when reading Machaut: naming a hidden principle that never appears in the text, the scapegoat.