Frasi di Ronald Laing

Ronald David Laing è stato uno psichiatra scozzese che scrisse estesamente sulla malattia mentale, in particolare sulla psicosi.

Le opinioni di Laing sulle cause e il trattamento di importanti disfunzioni mentali furono influenzate dalla filosofia esistenzialista. In controtendenza all'ortodossia psichiatrica del tempo, Laing considerava l'emozionalità espressa dal paziente o cliente per una descrizione valida di esperienza vissuta più che semplicisticamente una sintomatologia di un qualche disordine separato o soggiacente. Veniva associato al movimento anti-psichiatrico, sebbene ne rifiutasse l'etichetta. Politicamente, era considerato un intellettuale della Nuova Sinistra. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Ottobre 1927 – 23. Agosto 1989   •   Altri nomi R. D. Laing

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“Se la specie umana sopravviverà, gli uomini del futuro considereranno la nostra epoca illuminata, immagino come un vero e proprio secolo d'oscurantismo. Saranno indubbiamente capaci di apprezzare l'ironia di questa situazione in modo più divertente di noi. È di noi che rideranno. Sapranno che ciò che noi chiamiamo schizofrenia era una delle forme sotto cui – spesso per il tramite di gente del tutto ordinaria – la luce ha cominciato a filtrare attraverso le fessure delle nostre menti chiuse. La follia non è necessariamente un crollo (breakdown); essa può essere anche una apertura (breakthrough)… L'individuo che fa l'esperienza trascendentale della perdita dell'ego può e non può perdere l'equilibrio, in diversi modi. Può allora essere considerato come pazzo. Ma essere pazzo non è necessariamente essere malato, anche se nel nostro mondo i due termini sono diventati complementari… Dal punto di partenza della nostra pseudosalute mentale tutto è equivoco. Questa salute non è una vera salute. La pazzia dei nostri pazienti è un prodotto della distruzione che imponiamo a loro e che essi impongono a se stessi. Nessuno immagini che ci imbattiamo nella vera pazia, cosí come non siamo veramente sani di mente. La pazzia con cui abbiamo a che fare è un grossolano travestimento, una falsa apparenza, una grottesca caricatura di ciò che potrebbe essere la guarigione naturale da questa strana integrazione. La vera salute mentale implica in un modo o nell'altro la dissoluzione dell'ego normale…”

da La politica dell'esperienza; citato in Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, L'Anti-Edipo, traduzione di Alessandro Fontana, Einaudi, 2002, p. 147

Frasi sul viaggio di Ronald Laing

“Anche i fatti diventano immaginari senza un modo adeguato di vedere "i fatti". Non abbiamo bisogno di tante teorie ma dell'esperienza, madre di ogni teoria. Non restiamo soddisfatti con la fede, nel senso di una ipotesi non plausibile irrazionalmente presa come punto di riferimento: noi chiediamo all'esperienza l'"evidenza".
Possiamo vedere il comportamento delle altre persone, ma non la loro esperienza. Ciò ha portato alcune persone a focalizzarsi sul fatto che la psicologia non ha nulla a che fare con l'esperienza della persona, ma solo con il suo comportamento.
Il comportamento dell'altra persona è una delle mie esperienze. Il mio comportamento è un'esperienza dell'altro. Il compito della fenomenologia sociale è quello di relazionare la mia esperienza del comportamento dell'altro all'esperienza dell'altro riguardo al mio comportamento. Essa si occupa della relazione tra esperienza ed esperienza: il vero oggetto di studio è l'inter-esperienza.
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts."”

We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
We can see other people"s behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person"s experience, but only with his behaviour.
The other person"s behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. The task of social phenomenology is to relate my experience of the other"s behaviour to the other"s experience of my behaviour. Its study is the relation between experience and experience: its true field is inter-experience.
Origine: Da The Politics of Experience, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967, capitolo 1, Persons and Experience.

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“Stiamo effettivamente distruggendo noi stessi per mezzo di una violenza mascherata da amore. Sono uno specialista — Dio mi aiuti!”

di casi che avvengono in uno spazio e in un tempo interiori, di esperienze chiamate pensieri, immagini, fantasticherie, sogni, visioni, allucinazioni, sogni di memorie, memorie di sogni, memorie di visioni, sogni di allucinazioni, rifrazioni di rifrazioni di rifrazioni di quelle originarie Alfa e Omega di esperienza e realtà, quella stessa Realtà su cui repressione, diniego, separazione, proiezione, falsificazione e generale dissacrazione e profanazione, la nostra civiltà come nessun'altra è fondata. (p. 58)

“La fenomenologia sociale è la scienza della mia e altrui esperienza.”

Essa si occupa della relazione tra la mia esperienza di te e la tua esperienza di me. Vale a dire dell'<i>inter-esperienza</i>. Inoltre riguarda il tuo e il mio comportamento come io lo sperimento, e il tuo e il mio comportamento come tu lo sperimenti. (Esperienza come evidenza)
Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.

“L'essere e il non-essere è il tema centrale di tutta la filosofia, orientale e occidentale. Queste parole non sono innocui e innocenti arabeschi verbali, tranne nel filosofismo professionale della decadenza. Abbiamo paura di affrontare l'infondatezza senza fine e incommensurabile di ogni cosa. "Non vi è niente di cui aver paura."”

La rassicurazione conclusiva e il terrore finale.
Being and non-being is the central theme of all philosophy, East and West. These words are not harmless and innocent verbal arabesques, except in the professional philosophism of decadence. We are afraid to approach the fathomless and bottomless groundlessness of everything.

Ronald Laing: Frasi in inglese

“I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Contesto: I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you. My experience of you is not "inside" me. It is simply you, as I experience you. And I do not experience you as inside me. Similarly, I take it that you do not experience me as inside you.
"My experience of you" is just another form of words for "you-as-l-experience-you", and "your experience of me" equals "me-as-you-experience-me". Your experience of me is not inside you and my experience of you is not inside me, but your experience of me is invisible to me and my experience of you is invisible to you.

“We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm
The Politics of Experience (1967)
Contesto: Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person's experience, but only with his behaviour.
The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. The task of social phenomenology is to relate my experience of the other's behaviour to the other's experience of my behaviour. Its study is the relation between experience and experience: its true field is inter-experience.

“I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Divided Self

Origine: The Divided Self (1960), Ch. 1 : The existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons
Contesto: Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. It is not so much an attempt to describe particular objects of his experience as to set all particular experiences within the context of his whole being-in-his-world. The mad things said and done by the schizophrenic will remain essentially a closed book if one does not understand their existential context. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. Although retaining the terms schizoid and schizophrenic for the sane and psychotic positions respectively, I shall not, of course, be using these terms in their usual clinical psychiatric frame of reference, but phenomenologically and existentially.

“There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality"”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction
Contesto: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.

“Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 412; this might be a paraphrase, as the earliest occurrence of this phrase thus far located is in the form: "Ronald David Laing has shocked many people when he suggested in 1972 that insanity can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." in Studii de literatură română și comparată (1984), by The Faculty of Philology-History at Universitatea din Timișoara. A clear citation to Laing's own work has not yet been found.
Disputed

“We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be.
Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 2 of Introduction
Contesto: We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be.
Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities. This basic vision prevents us from taking any unequivocal view of the sanity of common sense, or of the madness of the so-called madman. … Our alientation goes to the roots. The realisation of this is the essential springboard for any serious reflection on any aspect of present inter-human life.

“Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Divided Self

Origine: The Divided Self (1960), Ch. 1 : The existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons
Contesto: Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. It is not so much an attempt to describe particular objects of his experience as to set all particular experiences within the context of his whole being-in-his-world. The mad things said and done by the schizophrenic will remain essentially a closed book if one does not understand their existential context. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. Although retaining the terms schizoid and schizophrenic for the sane and psychotic positions respectively, I shall not, of course, be using these terms in their usual clinical psychiatric frame of reference, but phenomenologically and existentially.

“Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Contesto: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.

“Few books today are forgivable.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction
Contesto: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.

“These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 58
Contesto: Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I. Q. s if possible.
From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.

“Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm
The Politics of Experience (1967)
Contesto: Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person's experience, but only with his behaviour.
The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. The task of social phenomenology is to relate my experience of the other's behaviour to the other's experience of my behaviour. Its study is the relation between experience and experience: its true field is inter-experience.

“Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 58
Contesto: Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I. Q. s if possible.
From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.

“Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Contesto: Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.

“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 58
Contesto: We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.

“What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction
Contesto: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.

“I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Contesto: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.

“The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm
The Politics of Experience (1967)
Contesto: Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person's experience, but only with his behaviour.
The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. The task of social phenomenology is to relate my experience of the other's behaviour to the other's experience of my behaviour. Its study is the relation between experience and experience: its true field is inter-experience.

“Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Contesto: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.

“There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 121

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction

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

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 3 of Introduction

“It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.”

Ronald David Laing libro The Politics of Experience

Origine: The Politics of Experience (1967), p.82 (of original version see Google Books link here https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGTUlU5E5rAC&dq=politics+of+experience&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22positivist+mistake%22)

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