Knots

Name: Knots
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7

By: RD Laing

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Hardcover | 10 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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100 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.27

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Originally published in 1970, Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together. Each brilliantly demonstrates Laing''s insights into the intricacies of human relationships.

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The publisher makes no mistake in calling these pieces departures, but underestimates the degree when he characterizes them as "dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or as brief plays." The author himself, after suggesting "knots, tangles, rankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds," modestly adopts the label "webs of maya"; and though the Hindu reference stopped us cold for a minute, later on it came to seem perfectly apt. Each fankle-or-whatever is a little study in the dynamics of relationship, reduced very nearly to abstract patterns of emotional logic (or illogic). Given their tail-in-teeth circularity and hypnotic repetition of basic words (want, distort, devour, stupid, happy, greedy, cruel, can, can't), they are actually more like a kind of verbal mandala. A sample: "The more Jill feels Jack is mean/ to feel she is mean to feel he is greedy to feel she is mean/ the more Jack feels Jill is mean/ to feel/ Jack is mean/ to feel she is mean/ to feel he is greedy/ to feel she is mean. . . . " We know who Jack and Jill are and what they are up to; but in order even to recognize what we know, in this form, we have to look much longer and harder than we would bother to do if we knew from the start what we were looking at: forced meditation. The last few, assuming we've gotten the drift, come right out with some pure propositions: "All distinctions are mind, by mind, in mind, of mind/ No distinctions no mind to distinguish." "I have thought up others," Laing says, but there's no hurry. If you can think about these at all, you can do it indefinitely. (Kirkus Reviews)

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