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myth, mythology, Roland Barthes, saussure, science, semiology, sign, signification
For mythology, since it is the study of a type of speech, is but one fragment of this vast science of signs which Saussure postulated some forty years ago under the name of semiology.
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analysis, Bachelard, eidetic psychology, form, language, literary criticism, myth, psychoanalysis, Roland Barthes, saussure, semiology, sign, signification, structuralism, structure, theory
For mythology, since it is the study of a type of speech, is but one fragment of this vast science of signs which Saussure postulated some forty years ago under the name of semiology. Semiology has not yet come into being. But since Saussure himself, and sometimes independently of him, a whole section of contemporary research has constantly been referred to the problem of meaning: psychoanalysis, structuralism, eidetic psychology, some new types of literary criticism of which Bachelard has given the first examples, are no longer concerned with fact except inasmuch as they are endowed with significance. Now to postulate a signification is to have resource to semiology. I do not mean that semiology could account for all these aspects of research equally well; they are all sciences dealing with values. They are not content with meeting the fact: they define and explore them as tokens for something else.