In Describing One Way Of Going Mad,

The Individual In The Ordinary Circumstances Of Living May Feel More Unreal Than Real; In A Literal Sense, More Dead Than Alive; Precariously Differentiated From The Rest Of The World, So That His Identity And Autonomy Are Always In Question.... He May Not Possess An Over-riding Sense Of Personal Consistency Or Cohesiveness. He May Feel More Insubstantial Than Substantial, And Unable To Assume That The Stuff He Is Made Of Is Genuine, Good, Valuable. And He May Feel His Self As Partially Divorced From His Body.

The Range Of What We Think And Do Is Limited By What We Fail To Notice.

We Are Born Into A World Where Alienation Awaits Us. We Are Potentially Men, But Are In An Alienated State, And This State Is Not Simply A Natural System. Alienation As Our Present Destiny Is Achieved Only By Outrageous Violence Perpetrated By Human Beings On Human Beings.

What We Call "normal" Is A Product Of Repression, Denial, Splitting, Projection, Introjection, And Other Forms Of Destructive Actions On Experience...it Is Radically Estranged From The Structure Of Being.

Alienation As Our Present Destiny Is Achieved Only By Outrageous Violence Perpetrated By Human Beings On Human Beings.