Self And Others
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it truly mean to exist in relation to another human being? In Self and Others, the radical Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing dismantles the conventional boundaries between the self and the social world, arguing that the individual psyche cannot be understood in isolation — it is forged, fractured, and sustained entirely through interpersonal experience. Drawing on existential philosophy and clinical psychiatry, Laing presents a penetrating examination of how identity is constructed and distorted through our relationships, mapping the invisible dynamics of collusion, projection, and fantasy that define human interaction. A landmark of anti-psychiatry thought, Self and Others sits at the volatile intersection of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, cementing Laing's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most provocative and consequential thinkers. His prose is at once clinical and poetic, stripping away the reassuring fictions of the stable self to reveal the deeply relational — and often deeply troubled — nature of human consciousness. For anyone who has ever questioned where they end and another person begins, this work remains as urgently unsettling as ever.
Author: R. D. Laing
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it truly mean to exist in relation to another human being? In Self and Others, the radical Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing dismantles the conventional boundaries between the self and the social world, arguing that the individual psyche cannot be understood in isolation — it is forged, fractured, and sustained entirely through interpersonal experience. Drawing on existential philosophy and clinical psychiatry, Laing presents a penetrating examination of how identity is constructed and distorted through our relationships, mapping the invisible dynamics of collusion, projection, and fantasy that define human interaction. A landmark of anti-psychiatry thought, Self and Others sits at the volatile intersection of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, cementing Laing's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most provocative and consequential thinkers. His prose is at once clinical and poetic, stripping away the reassuring fictions of the stable self to reveal the deeply relational — and often deeply troubled — nature of human consciousness. For anyone who has ever questioned where they end and another person begins, this work remains as urgently unsettling as ever.