R. D. Laing Normal Quotations

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being ...

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.