Knots
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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What happens when human relationships become so tangled in contradiction, guilt, and mutual misunderstanding that they form impossible, self-perpetuating loops? R. D. Laing's Knots presents a startling and hypnotic series of poetic dialogues and verse sequences that map the labyrinthine patterns of interpersonal conflict — the psychological snares people weave around themselves and each other in the name of love, logic, and sanity. A landmark work from one of the twentieth century's most provocative psychiatric thinkers, Knots argues that the everyday structures of human communication are riddled with paradox and self-contradiction. Laing employs a spare, almost mathematical style — stripped of conventional narrative — to illustrate how individuals bind one another in recursive cycles of blame, shame, and self-negation. The result is at once a clinical document, a prose poem, and a philosophical provocation that raises an unsettling question: if the knot is the relationship, can it ever truly be untied?
Author: R. D. Laing
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when human relationships become so tangled in contradiction, guilt, and mutual misunderstanding that they form impossible, self-perpetuating loops? R. D. Laing's Knots presents a startling and hypnotic series of poetic dialogues and verse sequences that map the labyrinthine patterns of interpersonal conflict — the psychological snares people weave around themselves and each other in the name of love, logic, and sanity. A landmark work from one of the twentieth century's most provocative psychiatric thinkers, Knots argues that the everyday structures of human communication are riddled with paradox and self-contradiction. Laing employs a spare, almost mathematical style — stripped of conventional narrative — to illustrate how individuals bind one another in recursive cycles of blame, shame, and self-negation. The result is at once a clinical document, a prose poem, and a philosophical provocation that raises an unsettling question: if the knot is the relationship, can it ever truly be untied?