“To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 60

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