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In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

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If I don't know I don't know
I think I know
If I don't know I know
I think I don't know

R. D. Laing

Society 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 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

R. D. Laing

R. D. Laing

R. D. Laing

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Born: October 7, 1927

Died: August 23, 1989 (aged 61)

Bio: Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness in particular, the experience of psychosis.

Known for:

The Divided Self (1960)
Sanity and Madness in the Family (1964)
Self and Others (1961)

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