There is no need of an unconscious order to explain myth.Myth hides nothing, it’s function is to distort.Myths can be spread over a large expanse of signifier -i.e.Form and concept: signified can have several signifiers, dependent on history, context, and ‘repetition of forms’, really crucial as allows myth to be deciphered.Signified formed by a string of signs (made up of signifiers and signifieds).Love = all that we learn to think love is Myth is the second language, not interested in the parts, but only in the thing signified from the sum of signified, signifier = sign, out of which grows the myth.Two semiological systems language object such as word or image, reduced to put signifying function when it becomes myth.Myth is a “second-order semiological system”.Looking at basic semiotics, describes: Objects – signifier + signified = sign, i.e.Links myth to semiology, to Saussuare and signification.Barthes establishes that verbal or visual mean of communication are carriers of myths.Minor Droutet’s Tree is given as an example Every object can pass from a closed object into the existence of a signifier.Myth – a system of communication, a mode of signification.
These are notes from parts of the text that I am able to penetrate. Advertisers and propaganda makers rely heavily on social myths to sell their products/ideas. These myths are augmented by the language of myths, which obscure the realities beneath them. Myth Today is an extremely complex and difficult text about the way in which languages, visual or oral, are used to perpetuate myths in society that people believe to be the natural way in which things are, how assumptions are made, and accepted as the only way life is lived.
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