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The Divided Self

Paperback • 1973 • English

The Divided Self

By R.D. Laing

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About the book

In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the “ontologically secure” person with that of a person who “cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted” and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid “losing his self”. Laing explains how we all exist in the world as beings, defined by others who carry a model of us in their heads, just as we carry models of them in our heads. In later writings he often takes this to deeper leve...Show more

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1973

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The Divided Self

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Paperback

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