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• Claude Lévi-Strauss

  French anthropologist (1908–2009), founder of structural anthropology, and Merleau-Ponty's friend and colleague at the Collège de France. In Signs' "From Mauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss" (1959), MP reads Lévi-Strauss as the successor to Marce…

• Ferdinand de Saussure

  Swiss linguist (1857–1913), founder of structural linguistics, author of the Course in General Linguistics (posthumously compiled from lectures, 1916). In Signs, especially "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" and "On the Phenomen…

• Jacques Lacan

  French psychoanalyst (1901–1981), founder of the École freudienne de Paris and of a structuralist-linguistic rereading of Freud. For the purposes of this wiki, Lacan matters primarily as the author of "Le stade du miroir comme formateur du…

• Roman Jakobson

  Russian-American linguist (1896-1982). One of the cardinal linguists of the twentieth century — co-founder of the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles; later at Harvard and MIT. For Merleau-Ponty, Jakobson's Kindersprache, Aphasie und allg…