==Definitions==
Defined by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] defines the [[mytheme]] as the '''smallest, most succinct element of meaning [[signification]] in a [[myth]]''', the . The [[mytheme]] grounds his [[structuralism|structuralist approach ]] to [[wp:myth|myth criticism]], his [[structuralism|structural analysis]] of [[wp:myth|myths]].<ref>(cf. in particular «The Structural Study of Myth» (1955); Tristes tropiques (1955); Anthropologie structurale (1958); La pensée sauvage (1962); Les mythologiques, 4 vols. (1964-1971); and Anthropologie structurale deux (1973)).</ref>
==Wikipedia==
