Myth’s formal features derive from its pre-individualistic social origins.

Evidence

The key to this paradoxical achievement is, I think, to be found in the social origins of the narrative material with which Levi-Strauss deals. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 2871

Categorization

• SHARE: For a narratologist friend: Jameson’s explanation of why Lévi-Strauss’s myth analyses resist Propp’s actant categories.
• XREF: connects to: In early Greek culture, myth was the dominant framework for understanding natural events before Pre-Socratic philosophers. — Exploring the Roots of Western Philosophy: The Pre-Socratic Period; In African thought the collective community precedes and grounds individual identity — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 331; Myth is what consciousness must overcome to become human.

Broader Connections

• In African thought the collective community precedes and grounds individual identity #exemplifies (0.78) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 331