Peter Medawar Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 28, 1915 - October 2, 1987
Birthday: February 28
Death: October 2
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.
topic: Relationship, Nature, Loss, Incoherence, Levi Strauss, Loose Ends, Deeper Understanding, Believability
