Potentialities of the Greimasian Narrativite

Abstract

Having been the epicenter of Algirdas Julien Greimas’ reflections
on Semiotics since its origins, the narrativity is here
investigated in three propositive directions: (i) To understand
the implicit tensivity in the Greimasian narrative model, from
Claude Zilberberg’s heuristic proposals; (ii) to incorporate into
narrativity —conceived as the anthropology of human imaginary—
the thymic-drive regime, as defended by Jean Petitot;
(iii) to suggest the entry of semiotics point of view into the
debate over the “great stories of anthropogenesis” —such as the
scientific-evolutionary narratives of human species, the humanist
narratives of the “human exception”, the phenomenological
narrative of “anthropological difference”, among others— to instruct
such debate with the proposal of a “semiological narrative”
that evidences the fundamental presence and action of language
in this anthropogenesis.