Strauss’s Matrix Structural Analysis Method

In his essay, “The Structural Study of Myth,” Strauss’s uses the matrix structural method of analysis that is usually used to analyze complex structures of meaning. Unlike the classical method of analysis that depends on providing answers by means of analytical beam formulation [paradigmatic relations (horizontal)], the matrix method examines the interrelations between parts of meaning [Syntagmatic relations (Vertical)] on the level of sentences, or between parts of meaning and other parts (defining larger unites like context). The use of the matrix method doesn’t make things easier to grasp for those who don’t like mathematics like myself, on the contrary it might make things more difficult to understand. But, I have to admit that it tries to show the logical relations between different parts of meaning. To give an example, the grouping of events in the matrix of Oedipus myth, made it easy to me to trace the overrating and underrating of blood relations as two binaries on one hand, and the denial and persistence of the autochthonous origin of man on the other. But I wonder how a classical method would be able to analyze the meaning as intended by Strauss himself.