The Metacritic of Genetic Structuralism

Lucien Goldmann called his research the “genetic structuralism”. By using the principles of this method, in human sciences generally, and in critic literature particularly, Goldmann has discovered the similarities and differences between the big complementary schools of critic literature that attached themselves to his method. For him, the genetic structuralism, by hypothesis, is that human behavior is a try to give an answer significant to a particular situation. In fact, for him, the harmony between the mental structure and the external world leads to a situation by which the human behavior can change the world. But can this social research be the most certain instrument for literal phenomenology? Has Goldmann not forgotten the literary text? When someone is nothing but an element of a social class, doesn’t his individual personality disappear totally in the aspirations of his society? What differences distinguish between the tragedy writer Racine and the comic writer Molière? Didn’t they live both during the reign of Louis XIV in the seventeenth century? Is the social identity really beyond the individual identity?