"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

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In other words, here is a moment when Levi-Strauss is admitting something about his own work which he is not admitting in his analysis of the Oedipus myth in the essay from Structural Anthropology that you read last time.

换句话说，在这里，列维承认了,关于自己作品的一些观点，而这些观点,是他在《结构人类学》中的那篇文章中,分析俄狄浦斯神话时所没有承认的,大家上次读过那篇文章。

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