Claude Lévi-Strauss La potière jalouse. Paris: Plon, 1985. First edition.  2259013619  314 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.  "As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism."