Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theor...y can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.... Fear a...nd resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of or...der 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »