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THE DIVIDED SELF AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY...

Dr. 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 schizophrenic breakdown  the whole
personality disintegrates.

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