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Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
R. D. Laing
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R. D. Laing
Age: 61 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 7
Died: 1989
Died: August 23
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Existential Therapist
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Glasgow
Scotland
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Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
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Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
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Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.
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We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
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When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
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What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
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Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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What we think is less than what we know What we know is less than what we love What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.
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The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
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