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[[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] defines the [[mytheme]] as the '''smallest, most succinct element of [[signification]] in a [[myth]]'''. 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>
==WikipediaStructuralism==In the study of 1950s [[wp:mythology|mythologyClaude Lévi-Strauss]]first adapted this technique of language analysis to analytic myth criticism. In his work on the myth systems of primitive tribes, a working from the analogy of language structure, he adopted the term ''mythème'mytheme''' is an irreducible nugget of myth, an unchanging element, not unlike a cultural meme, one with the assertion that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways—"bundled" was [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]'s image— or linked in more complicated relationships, like a molecule in a compound. For example, the myths system of [[wp:Adonis|Adonis]] and [[wp:Osiris|Osiris]] share several elements, leading some scholars to conclude meaning within mythic utterances parallels closely that they share of a sourcelanguage system.
This idea is somewhat disputed by [[Roman Jakobson]], who takes the mytheme to be a [[wp:concept|concept]] or phoneme which is without significance in itself but whose significance might be shown by [[wp:sociology|sociological]] analysis.<ref>*Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955. "The Structural study of myth" in ''Journal of American Folklore'', '''68''' pp 428-444</ref>