Structuralism and King Oedipus

Did Oedipus Suffer from the Oedipal Complex? A Psychological Analysis of Oedipus in Oedipus the King

Grant may be buried in Grant’s Tomb and Easter Island may have been discovered on Easter, but Oedipus did not suffer from the Oedipal Complex; the events that transpire in the play are a result of Oedipus’ failure to know himself and recognize his birth parents. Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, tells the story of the new king of Thebes who fulfilled the prophecy of killing his father and...

Structuralism, post-structuralism, and the library: de Saussure and Foucault

Purpose – Explores the relevance of structuralism and post-structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a literature-based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structuralism and post-structuralism, as represented by the seminal figures of Ferdinand de Saussure and Michel Foucault. Findings – The principles of ...

Structuralism, Reloaded

The attempt to institute a viable structuralist explanatory project in the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology) has been beset, since its inception, with what some have considered to be insurmountable difficulties. Four such roadblocks deserve mention. 1) The first, I refer to as Piaget’s question [Piaget 1970, 113]: “how do [social] forms acquire structural organization?”...

Biogenetic Structuralism

Structuralism is a movement within the sciences of man holding that the order which we are able to observe in the world is isomorphic with the order that obtains in the observing mind. The correspondences that exist between world and mind are not generally apparent from inspection, but require scrutiny into the "deep structure" that underlies phenomena, a concept first propounded by Ferdinand D...

Structuralism and Poststructuralism