Re: terms (Psychiatrists, State,Liberty and Schizophrenia)

David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@inforamp.net)
2 Oct 1996 18:26:55 GMT

"Sylvia T. Paldhan" <pald1208@tao.sosc.osshe.edu> wrote:

>Errol Back-Cunningham wrote:
>> Does anyone have a reference for this:
>> Insanity:'..Two people having a common logos, one of whom insists
>> on a private understanding of something, and is unable to
>> explain it to the other...
>> I have it in some notes, but cannot remember who to attribute it
>> to.
>>
>Try Frankl, Adler, and Laing.
>--

Frankl strikes me as pretty unlikely. Laing at his most stoned and
solipsistic would be a reasonable possibility. Of course it means
that everybody with more inner life than a carrot is insane.

-dlj.