The University and Its Metamorphoses (Part Two: Perspectives on the University Today) (Critical Essay‪)‬

Consider the metamorphoses that one man may go through in one day as he moves from one mode of sociality to another--family man, speck of crowd dust, functionary in the organization, friend. These are not simply different roles: each is a whole past and present and future, offering differing options and constraints, different degrees of change or inertia ... I know of no theory of the individual that fully recognizes this. R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience, 1967.