R.D. (Ronnie) Laing’s classic on psychiatry ‘The Divided Self’ remains an enigmatic attractor to those searching for answers to ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘bipolar disorder’, which Laing implies is a problem deriving from Western culture social dynamics rather than the symptoms-manifesting individual.  Laing states in a loud and clear voice that (Western culture) ‘normality’ is mental aberration.

Nietzsche makes the same point in his elucidation of the ‘double error’ hiding in Western culture language and grammar usage.

They are saying the same thing in different ways.  That is, the Western culture belief in name-instantiated psychical creation of ‘things-in-themselves’ (first error) grammatically conflated so as to impute to them powers of sourcing actions and developments (second error), is a crazy-making ‘double error’.

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