cursus

 a concrete singular historical phenomenon, but also

a model of function generalised which can be

a principle of assembly which allows to define and establish new sets

a figure of political technology

diagram of a mechanism of power in its ideal form

it functions as a paradigm, an example which defines the set to which it belongs and constitutes

juridical enquiry

an historical concrete phenomenon which functions as a paradigm - making the context intelligible

metonymical context

difference between metaphor and paradigm

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Whereas syntagmatic analysis studies the 'surface structure' of a text, paradigmatic analysis seeks to identify the various paradigms (or pre-existing sets of signifiers) which underlie the manifest content of texts.

• Paradigmatic transformations
  • substitution;
  • transposition;
• Syntagmatic transformations
  • addition;
  • deletion. 
  
  
  
   "The Saviour's Transfiguration", an early-15th century icon from the Tretyakov Gallery, attributed to :Theophanes the Greek.