ABSTRACT
The transformational formula is the structure of the myth that allows a transformation of time into space. Jacques Lacan takes aspect of the transformational formula of myth from Claude Levi-Strauss, who speaks of the power of myth to re-construe previously existing elements into a new form. Analysis the map may function as the possibility of marking the transformational formula of the Ratman’s individual myth with the family myth. When studying the function of myth in the case of little Hans in his seminar on The Object Relation, Lacan defines Hans’s walks with his father in Vienna as a “ceremony of already travelled itineraries”. Myths form part of discourse, as attempts to provide answers to essential questions concerning the origins of man, and social bond which differentiates man from nature. Rather than relying on the content of the phantasmatic scenario, Lacan like Levi Strauss proposes that the individual myth functions as a “transformational formula” which allows a contradiction to be overcome.
