R. D. Laing Quotes

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

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. - R. D. Laing

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. - R. D. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. - R. D. Laing

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

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. - R. D. Laing

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. - R. D. Laing

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know. - 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

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