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Structural linguistics, or structuralism, ... Similar analogies and metaphors were used in the historical-comparative linguistics that Saussure was part of. [6] [7] ...
The Marxist spatial metaphor of the edifice describes a social formation constituted by the foundational infrastructure, i.e. the economic base, on which stands the superstructure consisting of two floors: the law/the state (the politico-legal floor) and ideology. A detailed description of both structures is provided below:
A structural idealism is a class of linguistic units (lexemes, morphemes, ... (such as patterns of metaphor [15]), a model of a universal narrative structure, ...
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify ...
A staircase with two missing stairs and a warning sign, where the structural problem has not been fixed yet. The missing stair is a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization who many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be "managed," but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and ...
Ellen Meiksins Wood says: 'The base/superstructure metaphor has always been more trouble than it is worth', [6] while Terry Eagleton describes base and superstructure as 'this now universally reviled paradigm'. [7] However, other Marxists continue to insist on the paradigm's importance.
The iceberg metaphor shows nothing of the physiological (real) structure of the brain, the possible organic correspondences of the three psychic instances or their functions. Instead it is a commonly used visual metaphor depicting the relationship between the ego, id and superego agencies (structural model) and the conscious and unconscious ...
In Derrida's words, "structural discourse on myths—mythological discourse—must itself be mythomorphic". [22] Lévi-Strauss explicitly describes a limit to totalization (and at the same time the endlessness of 'supplementarity'). Thus Lévi-Strauss, for Derrida, recognizes the structurality of mythical structure and gestures towards its ...