and causes them to resonate through their distance and in their distance. Thus, the ideational center of convergence is by nature perpetually decentered, it serves only to affirm divergence. This is why it seemed that an esoteric, ex-centric path was opened to us.” (175)

8. From Imbert’s excellent study (Phénoménologies et langues formulaires, 395): “Une categorization, bien que finie, exhaustive, et partagée en chefs peu nombreux tout de même qu’une classification, s’en distingue par son principe. Sa fonction proper est de munir un espace de représentation d’une double carte, de subordonner une structure d’objects à une structure d’aspects—on veut dire relevant d’autres schèmes, dimensions ou déterminations.”

9. Hénaff (Claude Lévi-Strauss,143): “Very often (and first in the Mythologiques), Lévi-Strauss emphasizes the degree to which the exercise of symbolic thought attains an astonishingly high level of formulation and complexity, the logic of which we are barely able to translate into our categories and instruments of formalization.”