01432nam a2200205Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000150005808200200007310000160009324500820010926000350019130000100022652007780023665000140101465000150102865000190104394200080106299900170107095201390108720261029223111.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a0140135375  223a157.282 LAI  aLaing,R. D. 4aThe Divided Selfb : An Existential study in Sanity and Madnessc/ R.D. Laing  aLondonb: Penguin Booksc,1960  a218p.  aDr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real.' He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of his schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.  aSociology  aPsychology  aPsychoanalysis  cRBK  c69048d69048  00102ddc4071aSNULbSNULd2026-06-08l0o157.282 LAIpG8375r2026-06-08 15:45:17w2026-06-08yRBKzProf. Romila Thapar's Collection