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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.
Topics
- Loss
- Giving
- Answers
- Bewilderment
- Structure
- Believable
- Psychoanalysis
- Relationship
- Wells
- Comfort
- Together
- Order
- Make Sense
- Mythology
- Relief
- Deeper
- Ends
- Nature
- States
- Loose Ends
- Built
- Subjects
- Description
- Explanation
- Fellow Man
- Believability
- May
- Levi Strauss
- Deeper Understanding
- Understanding
- Incoherence
- Men
- Conditions
- Myth
- Theory
- Kind
- Fellows