High-Rise (sometimes High Rise sans hyphen) by J.G. Ballard and The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing. When I read the former, the latter struck me as an incredibly obvious and blatant lens to read it through, but the scholarship is somewhat absent there.
It could be because the former is a somewhat under-read thriller and the latter is the magnum opus of a decidedly fringe psychiatrist? I read Laing for an existential psychology course, but I can’t speak to his broader influence within the field. I’ve spent enough of my life explaining I am not a psychologist that I’ve never really looked into the currents and eddies at work within psychology. That said, what I know of his work feels remarkably contemporary.
High-Rise (sometimes High Rise sans hyphen) by J.G. Ballard and The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing. When I read the former, the latter struck me as an incredibly obvious and blatant lens to read it through, but the scholarship is somewhat absent there.
It could be because the former is a somewhat under-read thriller and the latter is the magnum opus of a decidedly fringe psychiatrist? I read Laing for an existential psychology course, but I can’t speak to his broader influence within the field. I’ve spent enough of my life explaining I am not a psychologist that I’ve never really looked into the currents and eddies at work within psychology. That said, what I know of his work feels remarkably contemporary.