Myth and Meaning

My studies have been in communication and culture. In those studies, structuralism indicates that meaning is in the foreground. There are these neat triangles of the sign, the signified, and the signifier. Each can be tied to other triangles that build the meaning reflexively in monster piles of triangles. But Mead points to a relationship between all that “has” been said and all that can “be” said which has the same reflexivity; but here it is the behind the scenes linkage that defines who we are and what we mean. Wittgenstein continually refers to what something said appears to mean (to him) as you think about it. He avoids the dialectic methodology so such thoughts can be considered.

Note that archetypes and allegorical story parts are abstract classes. That is why they are meaning holes rather than meaning [Jung]. Our natural brain knows how to use these processes so that the classes that fill the meaning holes can happen rapidly and must be real. The abstract classes are a method of rapid categorization that can be quickly followed by real classes and real meaning.

Dr.Jerome Heath