Elimination - Laing

"Such a mode of being-with-others would presuppose the capacity
to maintain one's reality by means of a basically autistic identity.
It would presuppose that it is finally possible to be human without
a dialectical relationship to others. It seems that the whole aim
of this manoeuvring is the preservation of an 'inner' identity
from phantasied destruction from outer sources, by eliminating
any direct access from without to this 'inner' self. But without the
'self ever being qualified by the other, committed to the 'objective'
element, and without being lived in a dialectical relationship
with others, the 'self is not able to preserve what precarious
identity or aliveness it may already possess."