Structuralism was a dominant wave in the western academic discourse in the 1950s and 1960s. It was influential in the departments of the humanities including sociology, psychology, anthropology and historiography. Structuralism had a clear and tangible impact in linguistics and, correspondingly, in literary theory and criticism. Structuralism linguistics is obviously employed in the major critical approaches to literature in general and psychoanalytical approach in particular. Structuralist linguistics is considerably influential and observable in a major field of contemporary literary criticism that is Lacanian psychoanalytical approach.
