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R. D. Laing Quotes

R. D. Laing quotes

Scottish Psychologist October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989

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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. R. D. Laing
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. R. D. Laing
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by..."
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence". R. D. Laing
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another. R. D. Laing
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. R. D. Laing
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction. R. D. Laing
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. R. D. Laing
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know..."
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label..."
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing quote: "Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what..."
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. R. D. Laing

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