Knots

Laing, R. D.

ISBN 10: 0394472152 / ISBN 13: 9780394472157

Published by Pantheon, 1970

About this Item

First American Edition stated and number line ending in 2. Dust jacket has chips, rubbing, and some tears which are taped. Dust jacket has creases and is price clipped. Prior gift inscription on front flyleaf. Otherwise, inside is clean and unmarked. Corners of boards bent in. See photos.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1731427859272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knots
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394472152
• ISBN 13: 9780394472157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition

About this title

Synopsis

A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.

From the Back Cover

"In his earlier work Laing guided the reader to understanding. In Knots he compels him to experience.... To grasp this dense and difficult book one must be willing to follow Laing in his spirals of descent. If Knots is to yield, one must yield to the knots."

-- James S. Gordon, The New York Times Book Review

"Dr. Laing's gentle determination to unpeel the bottom motive, the most inward secret of the heart, produces a curious combination of intensity and compassion....The heartbreaking ironies...belong to an artist rather than a psychiatrist....

"The voices of known demons rise from these pages: demons of guilt, demons of self-justification; demons of perverse will, demons of self-destruction. All the enemies of the human spirit are arrayed here as vividly, as warningly as in a medieval morality play. Those who believe that to unmask the enemy is a first step toward confounding him will find this a practical as well as a moral book."

-- Melvin Maddocks, The Christian Science Monitor