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Laing indicts modern society for producing an alienated experience and a false reality by indoctrinating its members to overemphasize the "outer" and suppress the "inner." By "inner" Laing means "out way of seeing the external world and all those realities that have no 'external,' 'objective' presence--imagination, dreams, fantasies, trances...
Experience is then the keystone of Laing's psychotherapy, his social critique and his suggestions for the improvement of the human condition. Psychotherapy is too often an attempt to impose the psychiatrist's "sane" reality in place of the patient's insane" reality. Such value judgments only compound the patient...
Experience is further devastated by the creation of pseudo-objects and pseudo-realities which have no validity in the individual's internal world and no substance in the external world, yet are experienced as objective entities. These pseudo-objects are reifications of the fundamental structures of experience which are shared...
The experiences of these young men attest to the relevance of The Politics of Experience. Laing's emphasis on the need in modern life to restore the meaning of the inner to the substance of the outer has pinpointed a particularly virulent and prevalent form of the contemporary malaise of...
Army, Navy, and Air Force officials, here and in Washington, appear confused about the meaning and ramifications of last week's Corporation decision on ROTC at Harvard.