Comments on: Structuralism, The Canonical Formula, and Computer Games https://www.increpare.com/2008/10/structuralism-the-canonical-formula-and-computer-games/ let's try something out here... Sat, 19 May 2018 00:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 By: Tancredo Braga https://www.increpare.com/2008/10/structuralism-the-canonical-formula-and-computer-games/comment-page-1/#comment-31806 Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:59:24 +0000 http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~icecube/?p=782#comment-31806 My notebook sometimes gives me a bad surprise. I’m lucky that this whole text wasn’t lost. Just a silly key and the thing was gone.

Warm regards and thank you for your work!
Tancredo Braga

]]> By: Tancredo Braga https://www.increpare.com/2008/10/structuralism-the-canonical-formula-and-computer-games/comment-page-1/#comment-31805 Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:56:56 +0000 http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~icecube/?p=782#comment-31805 Hi!
What a nice work you’ve done!
I’m writing from Brazil, where Lévi-Strauss has taugh Philosophy during the war, with a team of top philosophers “imported” by the São Paulo University.
During his vacations he visited the savages,and registered that in Tristes Tropiques (French name, to avoid confusions).
I’ve always been curious about this formula. Once I was at a Math library, searching about it, and I saw a professor with some students. I talked to him and asked for some help, showing the formula. He just stared and said some vague words, evading the question.
I know only a good example, given by an Argentinian psychoanalist. The ‘heart of stone’ psychiatrist turns into a hysterical woman, which is a good thing, because it was an hysterical woman who showed the way to psychoanalisis. It was an interpretation of Freud’s opening dream in his book about dream interpretation.
It’s a pity that I don’t know these games, but maybe I’ll check if they are still around. I was too much of a ‘rocker’ to play videogames.
My nephew is probably doctoring in cell phone video games, somewhere in Germany. I tried to play Mad Dog with him (I loved that game!) after searching for a game I would like to play, but my sister said psychologists were against that game, because there was human-like people all the time. So I lost my opportunity.
The only game I liked! It was very funny! I didn’t play it more than a few minutes, but that was enough, love at first sight.
Please get in touch if you have worked more on this topic.
There’s a book by Lévy-Strauss, The Jealous Potter, that works on this formula. I didn’t read it yet, but I will.
I read many of his books, I really like him. The way he related myths and music was very nice.
And he was right in his debate with Sartre!

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