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− | LÉVI-STRAUSS (see also ADORNO)
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− | The key example Žižek takes from Lévi-Strauss is his famous analysis
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− | in Structural Anthropology concerning two different groups from the
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− | same tribe, each conceiving of their village in a different way. Zižek's
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− | point is that the "truth of the village is to be found neither in some
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− | reconciliation of the two competing versions nor in some neutral,
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− | "objective' overhead view, but in this very split itself: "Returning to
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− | Lévi-Strauss's example of the two drawings of the village, let us note
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− | that it is here that we can see in what precise sense the Real intervenes
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− | through anamorphosis' (p.338). This will be related by Zižek to that
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− | fundamental 'split' of sexual difference, where again the "truth' is not
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− | to be found in some reconciliation or putting together of a whole, but
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− | in the antagonism itself. As he asks: 'How ... are we to understand
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− | the "ahistorical" status of sexual difference? Perhaps an analogy to
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− | Claude Lévi-Strauss's notion of the "zero-institution" might be of
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− | some help here' (p. 335-6). Žižek will use Adorno's analysis of the
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− | social in exactly the same sense as that of Lévi-Strauss here.
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