Tag Archives: R.D. Laing

finding their way back to the new-old world

At some point the sublimity of spirituality becomes corrupted, infected and toxified with religious hallucinations embedded with supersitition and fantastic images from the recesses of the mind. An addiction to the subjective roots of ostensibly objective problems. James Ensor could … Continue reading

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everything is oblique in these fearful polite times

For Antonin Artaud, there was a fundamental incompatibility between the individual at his most anti-social or “mad” and humanist liberal democracy which can also be regarded as irrational, illogical and insane.He was unique.He felt that sex represented the evil forces … Continue reading

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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading

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DIDO FORSAKEN: Duties of the Ruling Class

Peter Barnes gained almost instant recognition, from relative obscurity with his play “The Ruling Class” in the late 1960′s.  The play came at the height of the 1960s counterculture movement, when the youth of the western world began to openly … Continue reading

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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE

First of all, should we begin  by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading

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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS

“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading

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FROM THE CENTRE OF THEIR OWN CRYSTAL

The mad person as a symbol is a living, breathing reproach to the skeptical, scientific view of humanity and the universe which underlies everything that used to be known as Progress. The mad person as metaphor is also the one … Continue reading

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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND

“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading

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THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT

“Artaud saw in Vincent van Gogh a faithful replica of his own torment. After the painter’s suicide he wrote: Dr. Gachet would not tell van Gogh that he was there to straighten out his painting (…) but he used to send … Continue reading

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