"The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce
a false consciousness of security; to deny death by
avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe
in God, not to experience the Void; to create,
in short, one-dimensional man; to promote
respect, conformity, obedience, to con children
out of play; to induce a fear of failure; to promote
a respect for work; to promote a respect for
"respectability."
Go, please, sit, take a minute....
"Psychotherapy must reamin an obstinate
attempt of two people to recover the wholeness of
being human through the relationship between them.
Any technique concerned with the other without
the self, with behavior to the exclusion of experience,
with the relationship to the neglect of the persons in
relation, with the individuals to the exclusion of their
relationship, and most of all, with an object-to-be-changed
rather than a person-to-be-accepted, simply perpetuates
the disease it purports to cure."
-R.D. Laing, "The Politics of Experience"
Well, shit.
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