Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. - R. D. Laing

"Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence"."

The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.