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Such patterns can be insightful in verse and beautiful in a brief video but I can't see anyone really wanting to be trapped in such loops. The book is a slim volume of verses that takes a premise and then twists it into every permutation you can think of, until your head is swimming with seemingly commonplace words that suddenly make no sense.

D. Laing quoted the French psychiatrist Min kowski: “This is a subjective work which tries with all its might to be objective. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To my good friend Batts Xmas 1970 (Its great to be copied)' in black ink to the front free endpaper. I'd bet a neuroscientist somewhere has by our time used a CAT scan or some other wonder to map a human mind thinking this way thus forming what appears beautiful recursive cascades. Nothing else before or since so perfectly caught the efficiency and momentum and horror of circular thinking. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship—the "knots" of the title—bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.It's certainly not a comfortable read, but I find myself going back to it whenever I find myself overwhelmed by a social situation or confused as to how or why people are interacting with me the way that they are. This is what you get if you applied Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to relationship failures. For the last 12 years, in eight books and numerous articles, Laing has, to the dismay of much of ortho dox psychiatry, pushed his own subjectivity to its limits. Sometimes just being able to look from the outside and see what the pattern is can allow us to pick it apart or even to opt out.

To grasp this dense and difficult book one must be willing to follow Laing in his spirals of descent. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.A "fascinating departure" for this wildly controversial psychoanalyst, this volume consists of "powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or a brief play," each describing a type of relationship--the "knots" of the title. Laing wrote a considerable number of works, mainly studies into forms of mental illness and his own developed theories of psychotherapy. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.

The final knots resemble Buddhist koans, and use language to show the limits of symbolic/reflexive thinking itself.

After having been through some 'knots' in relationships myself, it now seems a bit like John Cleese's Families and how to survive them. Each poem describes a different kind of relationship, indicating the knots people will tie themselves into through preconception or misunderstanding. Knots is a logical breakdown of every argument possible, based on how one's identity is affected by others. Each chapter describes a different kind of the "knots" of the bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.

And by failing and failing, again and again, to undo the Knots mean folks keep tying up again - and getting up again from the dust of our defeated rebooting each time, knowing there IS a way through it all - we WILL succeed. They may have been impressed that a liberal arts dabbler and then-English Major was reading abstruse psychological books like Laing’s, I don’t know. Take it with a grain of salt, but not so much that you miss the brilliance of some of these riddles. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover lettered in blind, pink endpapers, dust jacket. Ultimately, descriptions which have delighted the reader and compelled him to mental gymnastics yield that which cannot be described.In a series of poems varying in length, Laing lays out the excruciatingly illogical thought patterns that we all go through in as simple a manner as possible, almost like paradoxical equations. The large knot of which this a part climaxes in a series of varia tions on the theme of differentiation between the self and the world, “me” and “not me,” the “mine” “not mine. Knots is unlike any other book, consisting of a series of powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or as brief plays, each complete in itself. One can discern an approximate focus in each—love, possessiveness, under standing, fear, the nature of being— but all these themes are echoed in each knot.



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