“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the biography of the person. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE” — 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… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of us. Inevitably… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“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.… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“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
