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Downes, P.
2014
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IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Moving beyond diametric structured myths for recovery in Irish society
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Change to diametric structured oppositions was a key preoccupation of both Lévi-Strauss’ interrogation of myths and Freud’s understanding of obsessional neurosis. Based on Downes (2012), recovery can be reinterpreted in depth psychological terms as movement from such diametric spaces of exclusion and towards contrasting concentric spaces underpinning experience. Governing myths, organising collective meaning in Irish society, have included nationalism, Catholicism and the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Important features of each of these have arguably been locked within a diametric framing structure of exclusion. Growth in Irish society requires not simply new myths but new structures of myth beyond diametric ones.
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