R.D. Laing

"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.”
“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
“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.”
“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
“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.”
“The usual state of affairs is to be in an untenable position in phantasy systems of a nexus. This is usually called having an ‘identity’ or ‘personality’. We never even dream of extricating ourselves ... By untenable, I mean that it is impossible to leave and impossible to stay.”
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
- R.D. Laing
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