Filiative myth subsumes the individual as a link in the community’s chain

Evidence

In every instance, and of necessity, the mythical community precedes any thought of the individual, whose foremost dimension is as a link in the chain of filiation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 282

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to whether strategic-essentialist identity is available to individuals or only collectively—here the individual only exists as a node of a communal genealogical chain. — connects to: Communities are founded on a chain of filiation that legitimacy must sustain — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 311; A person can be defined by the structure of their relations to the dead — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1262; Tragedy is the deferred disclosure of a threat to communal filiation — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 310

Broader Connections

• Communities are founded on a chain of filiation that legitimacy must sustain #corroborates (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 311
• A person can be defined by the structure of their relations to the dead #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1262
• Tragedy is the deferred disclosure of a threat to communal filiation #expands (0.78) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 310