“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example, repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection. These "mechanisms" are often described in psychoanalytic terms as themselves "unconscious,” that is,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical ‘mechanisms.’ There are forms of alienation that are relatively… — R.D. Laing Copy Share
“We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of us. Inevitably we see the other as the reflection of the occasion of our own self-division. The others have become installed in our hearts, and we call them ourselves. Each person, not being himself either to himself or… — R.D. Laing Copy Share
“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What an interesting finger let me suck it. It's not an interesting finger take it away.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The group, whether We or You or Them, is not a new individual or organism or hyperorganism on the social scene; it has no… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities. As this external human world is almost completely and totally estranged from the inner, any personal direct awareness of the inner world already has grave risks. But since society, without knowing it, is starving for the… — R.D. Laing Copy Share
“If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“This writing is not exempt. It remains like all writing an absurd and revolting effort to make an impression on a world that will… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example, repression, denial,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried with him… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
