The Structure of Language

The way that you teach literature in high school now is a structuralist approach. Claude Levi Strauss, when he went and the lunch with the barbarians or whatever his famous book was called,. And it just had profound implications for psychoanalysis. When you watch a movie like the Lego movie and they're making fun of all the other movies that have a hero's journey type story, they're basically engaging on some level in a structuralist critique.