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“The Politics of Experience” by R.D. Laing

19 January 2009 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

What if the “delusions” reported by patients during psychotic episodes were not symptoms of a disease, but valid descriptions of their experiences?

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“The Undiscovered Self” by Carl Jung

27 February 2008 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

Writing in 1957, Jung is very concerned with the Cold War, Communism and the threat of nuclear disaster. However, his points seem very salient in 2008 as well. He is alarmed about ‘mass-mindedness’ — the reduction of individuals to anonymous, like-thinking units of humanity, to be manipulated by propaganda and advertising into fulfilling whatever function [...]

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