I read R. D. Laing at around the same time as I read Herbert Marcuse - age
17, or thereabouts - and insufferable as it must have made me I'm glad of
what I think I learned from these writers. From Laing: that there is an
ethical dimension to selfhood, that "being oneself" is already a social act.
>From Marcuse: the phrase "repressive desublimation", as good a name as any
for the kind of "liberation" that disarms and paralyses.
- Dom
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