R.D. Laing

“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It…

— R.D. Laing

“We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of…

— R.D. Laing

“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner…

— R.D. Laing

“What an interesting finger let me suck it. It's not an interesting finger take it away.”

— R.D. Laing

“The group, whether We or You or Them, is not a new individual or organism or hyperorganism on the social scene; it…

— R.D. Laing

“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of…

— R.D. Laing

“If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I…

— R.D. Laing

“This writing is not exempt. It remains like all writing an absurd and revolting effort to make an impression on a world…

— R.D. Laing

“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can…

— R.D. Laing

“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example,…

— R.D. Laing

“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”

— R.D. Laing

“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried…

— R.D. Laing

“Since the self, in maintaining its isolation and detachment does not commit itself to a creative relationship with the other and is…

— R.D. Laing