Abstract
The famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is sitting in his study and writing his book The Savage Mind. He has just reached the section in the text where he explains the dual nature of myths. On the one hand, as a system of abstract relations, on the other, as an object of aesthetic study. The creative act that brings forth the myth is, conversely, symmetric to the creative act of an artwork, as he elaborates. The artwork is based on a totality lending the aesthetic creation a common structure and the character of totality. The myth, by contrast, uses a structure to produce an absolute object which summarizes the events to one totality.31
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Lévi-Strauss (1966: 26)
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 27
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(2008). The Fish Club as a Can Opener. In: The Cooked Kitchen. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-77642-1_8
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