{"product_id":"2026200015638-secondhand-knots","title":"Knots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nA 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203260784859,"sku":"2026200015638-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d04d846d-f335-45b1-83fa-c2bc810ca6b8.png?v=1788146713","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015638-secondhand-knots","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}