دانلود کتاب The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise

Is there anywhere seen such a thing as a normal man?
Modern society clamps a straitjacket of conformity on every child that's born.
In the process man’s potentialities are devastated
and the terms sanity and madness become ambiguous.
The schizophrenic may simply be someone who has been unable to suppress
his normal instincts and conform to an abnormal society.
The whole question of ‘normality’ is raised in this new book
by Dr. Laing, the author of The Divided Self.
In the fog of psychological ambiguities, as he sees it,
we cannot rely on the navigators, just because the theories of
experts about alienation too often manifest the very faults they describe.
The author's argument leads him to explore the psychological weapons of
constriction, deprivation, splitting and projection;
and he does not hesitate to call on science, rhetoric, poetry,
and polemic to support his points. If he leaves us with
little more than the bitter taste of truth in this modern dilemma, at least he believes
that 'as there are survivors, there is still hope'.