Social and desire-based interpretation begins only at the archetypal level

Evidence

It is only at the third level, the Mythical or Archetypal, on which the concepts of both desire and society make their appearance that we reach interpretation proper. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1687

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates Jameson’s own three-horizon scheme (political history, society, history of modes of production) — the reader’s stated focus.