Knots

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It's certainly not a comfortable read, but I find myself going back to it whenever I find myself overwhelmed by a social situation or confused as to how or why people are interacting with me the way that they are. Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square. It is a description of familial process that Laing details in “The Politics of the Family” (which unfortunately has not yet been pub lished in America). But these poems are startling and revealing in their simplicity; in their assertion that any one of us may find themselves in situations which feel impossible because they have no right answer.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Oh, the Massed Forces of Hades will do everything possible to make you do just that - and direct you into a heavy diagnostic Pit Stop for rebooting. Knots is a logical breakdown of every argument possible, based on how one's identity is affected by others. Knots is unlike any other book, consisting of a series of powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or as brief plays, each complete in itself. A "fascinating departure" for this wildly controversial psychoanalyst, this volume consists of "powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or a brief play," each describing a type of relationship--the "knots" of the title.But in “Knots,” Laing has abandoned his ordinarily graceful prose for highly condensed poems, the knots of the title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover lettered in blind, pink endpapers, dust jacket. Like Freud 40 years ago, Laing is read as psychi atric theoretician, political philos opher and personal guru.

But it's also got the ability to make you deeply reflect on the nature of human interaction - between you and your parents, your lover, yourself. Circular thinking doesn't go anywhere, A gyre spins up or down or out or in--the mind at least goes somewhere.I give it 5* as I think this poem summarizes the logic of relationship failures, in a way that provides a fundamental, deep and timeless understanding of emotions. Sometimes you are certain that you understand what he means, but after a moment you realize that it is far far away of what you thought it is, you don't know what he means, maybe he doesn't mean anything, maybe it is for you to give a meaning to the knot, and maybe only maybe you can find a way to untie that knot if only you could find it between those perplexing, mysterious, baffling lines. I read this poetry collection years ago and marveled at the brilliance and wit Laing tooled into each poem. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship—the "knots" of the title—bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.