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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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