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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

R.D. Laing

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The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real.' He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of his schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.

Format:

Pages:: 218 pages

Publication:: 1965

Publisher:: Penguin

Edition:: Penguin Psychology

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0140135375

ISBN13:: 9780140135374

kindle Asin:: B00341852W

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

R.D. Laing

4.11/5 (5446 ratings)

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The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real.' He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of his schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.

Format:

Pages:: 218 pages

Publication:: 1965

Publisher:: Penguin

Edition:: Penguin Psychology

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0140135375

ISBN13:: 9780140135374

kindle Asin:: B00341852W

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