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Knots: Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7
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Originally published in 1970, Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together. Each brilliantly demonstrates Laing's insights into the intricacies of human relationships.
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1
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.
I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
They are not having fun.
I can’t have fun if they don’t.
If I get them to have fun, then I can have
fun with them.
Getting them to have fun, is not fun. It is
hard work.
I might get fun out of finding out why
they’re not.
I’m not supposed to get fun out of working
out why
they’re not.
But there is even some fun in pretending
to them I’m not
having fun finding out why they’re not.
A little girl comes along and says: let’s
have fun.
But having fun is a waste of time, because
it doesn’t
help to figure out why they’re not having
fun.
How dare you have fun when Christ died
on the Cross
for you! Was He having fun?
It is our duty to bring up our children
to love,
honour and obey us.
If they don’t, they must be punished,
otherwise we would not be doing our duty.
If they grow up to love, honour and obey us
we have been blessed for bringing them up
properly.
If they grow up not to love, honour and
obey us
either we have brought them up
properly
or we have not:
if we have
there must be something the matter
with them;
if we have not
there is something the matter with us.
A son should respect his father
He should not have to be taught to respect
his father
It is something that is natural
That’s how I’ve brought up my son
anyway.
Of course a father must be worthy of
respect
He can forfeit a son’s respect
But I hope at least that my son will
respect me, if
only for leaving him free to respect me or
not.
There must be something the matter with
him
because he would not be acting as he
does
unless there was
therefore he is acting as he is
because there is something the matter
with him
He does not think there is anything the
matter with him
because
one of the things that is
the matter with him
is that he does not think that there is
anything
the matter with him
therefore
we have to help him realize that,
the fact that he does not think there is
anything
the matter with him
is one of the things that is
the matter with him
there is something the matter with him
because he thinks
there must be something the matter
with us
for trying to help him to see
that there must be something the matter
with him
to think that there is something the
matter with us
for trying to help him to see that
we are helping him
to see that
we are not persecuting him
by helping him
to see we are not persecuting him
by helping him
to see that
he is refusing to see
that there is something the matter with
him
for not seeing there is something the
matter
with him
for not being grateful to us
for at least trying to help him
to see that there is something the
matter with
him
for not seeing that there must be
something the
matter with him
for not seeing that there must be
something the
matter with him
for not seeing that there is something the
matter
with him
for not seeing that th...
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