Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Career
Laing spent a couple of years as a psychiatrist in the British Army (Royal Army Medical Corps; conscripted despite his asthma that made him unfit for combat) where he found an interest in communicating with mentally distressed people. Laing". D.

Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement although he rejected the label. Politically he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.