We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation...

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation...

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of...

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of...

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and...

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and...

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation...

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation...

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings...

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings...

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to...

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to...