Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
From 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.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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.
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