#r.d. laing

[nobrashfestivity]

 R.D. Laing Diagram from KNOTS, 1970

#R.D. Laing #1970 #poetry

[funeral]

The important point he always kept in mind was that he was playing a part. Usually, in his mind, he was playing the part of someone else, but sometimes he played the part of himself (his own self): that is, he was not simply and spontaneously himself, but he played at being himself. His ideal was, never to give himself away to others. Consequently he practised the most tortuous equivocation towards others in the parts he played.

R.D. Laing, The Divided Self

#r.d. laing #the divided self #psychoanalysis #false self #quotes #p

[sasomienspegel]

"We are afraid to approach the fathomless and bottomless groundlessness of everything. "There"s nothing to be afraid of." The ultimate reassurance, and the ultimate terror."

— R.D. Laing, Politics Of Experience And Bird Of Paradise (1967)

#r.d. laing #q

[entheognosis]

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

#r.d. laing

[bittwitchy]

Mad to be Normal (2017)

#dtennantedit #davidtennantedit #david tennant #mad to be normal #mtbnedit #madtobenormaledit #r.d. laing #mine #mine. #please don't add to gif hunts/claim as your own/edit without permission. thank you! #davids hair in this film is just i hate it #i have no idea what this movie is or what its about i dont intend to learn either but i know i hate his hair

[speakingparts]

CLEAN, SHAVEN [1993, LODGE KERRIGAN]

#clean shaven #us film #lodge kerrigan #cinema #movies #film #great directors #great sound design #anxiety #paranoia #schizophrenia #allucinations #disassociative feelings #Hahn Rowe #peter greene #r.d. laing #criterion

[dreams-of-mutiny]

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

― R.D. Laing

#r.d. laing #quotes

[deniizim]

#r.d. laing

[funeral]

The more he keeps his 'true self' in hiding, concealed, unseen, and the more he presents to others a false front, the more compulsive this false presentation of himself becomes [...] Instead, he compulsively exhibits what he regards as mere extraneous trappings to others; he dresses ostentatiously, speaks loudly and insistently. He is constantly drawing attention to himself, and at the same time drawing attention away from his self. His behaviour is compulsive. All his thoughts are occupied with being seen. His longing is to be known. But this is also what is most dreaded.

R.D. Laing, The Divided Self

#r.d. laing #the divided self #false self #psychoanalysis #excerpts #quotes #p

[sasomienspegel]

"Many of us do not know, or even believe, that every night we enter zones of reality in which we forget our waking life as regularly as we forget our dreams when we awake. Not all psychologists know of phantasy as a modality of experience, and the, as it were, contrapuntal interweaving of the different experiential modes. Many who are aware of phantasy believe that phantasy is the farthest that experience goes under ‘normal’ circumstances. Beyond that are simply ‘pathological’ zones of hallucinations, phantasmagoric mirages, delusions."

— R.D. Laing, Politics Of Experience And Bird Of Paradise (1967)

#r.d. laing #q #dream state

[entheognosis]

By the time the new human being is fifteen or so, we are left with a being like ourselves, a half-crazed creature more or less adjusted to a mad world. This is normality in our present age.

R.D. Laing

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[tryingmyluck]

currently reading the divided self by laing and it’s throwing me into spirals because he articulates these ways of thinking/feeling/perceiving so well and i relate sooooo much

#the divided self #r.d. laing #book thoughts

[guattarianbitch]

«But psychiatry can so easily be a technique of brainwashing, of inducing behaviour that is adjusted, by (preferably) non-injurious torture. In the best places, where straitjackets are abolished, doors are unlocked, leucotomies largely forgone, these can be replaced by more subtle lobotomies and tranquillizers that place the bars of Bedlam and the locked doors inside the patient. Thus I would wish to emphasize that our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities, that many of us are only too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt to false realities.»

- R.D. Laing, The divided self

#psychiatry #psychology #r.d. laing

[speakingparts]

CLEAN, SHAVEN [1993, LODGE KERRIGAN]

#clean shaven #us film #lodge kerrigan #cinema #movies #film #great directors #great sound design #anxiety #paranoia #schizophrenia #allucinations #disassociative feelings #Hahn Rowe #peter greene #r.d. laing #criterion

[bridgeross]

Critiquing the Naysayers and Skeptics of Psychiatry

By Dr David Laing Dawson For every advance in the medical specialty of psychiatry, and every attempt to define, categorize, and improve the treatment of “mental illnesses”, there have been naysayers, pundits ready to proclaim that these aberrations of mental processes and behaviour are not illnesses or diseases at all. Thomas Szasz would say “mental illness” is a myth, that such behaviours are…

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#Alan Watts #Gabor Mate #L. Ron Hubbard #R.D. Laing #Robert Wittaker #Thomas Szasz

[caarcas]

absurdo diario - obligaciones paternas.

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#absurdo diario #caarcas #David Cooper #Felix Guattari #Franco Basaglia #la estrella lloró rosa #Michel Foucault #R.D. Laing #rosas celestes #rosas terrestres #Thomas Szasz