R. D. Laing
Psychologist
1927-10-07
Quotes by R. D. Laing
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What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
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What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
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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.
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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If I hazarded 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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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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Insanity: a perfectly natural adjustment to an insane world.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.
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Schizophrenic behavior is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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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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Insanity-a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.
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Insanity; a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
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The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
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