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This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work on the living organism from his first efforts at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 to the laboratory experiments in Oslo in 1939 which revealed the existence of a radiating biological energy, orgone energy. The subject of "sexuality" is basic to this work, and Reich shows clearly its importance for
This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work on the living organism from his first efforts at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 to the laboratory experiments in Oslo in 1939 which revealed the existence of a radiating biological energy, orgone energy. The subject of "sexuality" is basic to this work, and Reich shows clearly its importance for human life and its relevance in understanding the social problems of our time.
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January 1st 1987
by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
(first published 1942)
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Aug 06, 2013
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Full disclosure: I found this book and Reich's 'Character Analysis' outside a Walgreens as I was walking back home from exercising. This obviously endows me with perfect insight in understanding his work better than anyone else. These are first impression thoughts and if you disagree with my summary please do not call the police on me I am on parole. Let me start by typing out Reich's definition of 'orgastic potency': 'Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy
Full disclosure: I found this book and Reich's 'Character Analysis' outside a Walgreens as I was walking back home from exercising. This obviously endows me with perfect insight in understanding his work better than anyone else. These are first impression thoughts and if you disagree with my summary please do not call the police on me I am on parole. Let me start by typing out Reich's definition of 'orgastic potency': 'Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibition; the capacity to discharge completely the damned-up sexual excitation through involuntary, pleasurable convulsions of the body.' When I first read his definition I was pretty amused. Pleasure is a very hard thing to be analytical about, and he was presenting a point of view that aimed to relate psychic illness with physiological unease, all by conveying that pleasure was a measurable 'bioelectric current' in the body. I was amused because I always assumed that all intellectual dudes in the mid 1900's were prudes for some reason. Immediately I thought of vital energy schools--chi and prana and whatever name you wanted to give to a flow metaphor that you want to use when you are explaining the way you think the universe works when you are high. So I was hoping for some tie in with an eastern vitalism school or at least a head nod to hedonic philosophies. "Shout out to Tantric Buddhism, who thought sex was cool before I did," was just an example of a line I wanted to read. But then I remembered that he didn't have the internet like I did and maybe he never bumped into the sexy cool gypsy lady that would have opened him up to the philosophies of the east. I took out my notebook and wrote down that hypothetical as the premise for my next screen play and I forgave him. He does mention some eastern ideology when he talks about yogic breathing exercises, which he notes does the 'exact opposite' of the breathing exercises he teaches his patients. He over-generalizes and concludes this is because the yogic techniques aim to 'gain control over their natural vegetative impulses.' That assessment is not incorrect, he just missed out at the more immersive yoga techniques. But its fine I would be more upset with him if he had the internet. I thought about it for a couple days, and especially as he talks about his butting heads with the psychoanalytic powers that be--his mode of thinking, given his sociological and cultural surroundings, was incredibly novel. Reich came off as an earnest human being who had very sensitive and insightful points of view on the nature of fascism, the role of neuroses at the scale of society, and the relationship with the sympathic and parasympathic systems of the body with respect to our psychological states. I'll type out some more of my favorite quotes and then I will hit the save button. "[..] neuroses appear in a fundamentally different light than they did in psychoanalysis. They are not solely the results of unresolved psychic conflicts and infantile fixations. These fixations and psychic conflicts cause fundamental disturbances in the regulation of bioelectric energy and, in this way, become somatically anchored. For this reason, it is not possible, nor is it admissible to separate psychic and somatic process." "Man has made enormous progress in the construction and control of machines. It is hardly forty years since he began to comprehend himself. Unless he can develop the capacity to regulate his own biological energy, it will not be possible to master the psychic plague that is laying waste our century. The path of scientific research and mastery of life's problems is long and arduous: it is the exact opposite of the ignorance and impertinence of politicians. We have reason to hope that science will one day succeed in utilizing biological energy as it now does electricity. Not until then will the human psychic plague meet its master." Here's to finding stimulating books outside of walgreens, Johann Bestowrous
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Wilheim Reich'ın cinsellik psikoterapistliği yaptığı ve bu doğrultuda yazdığı ilk kitabı. (Araştırmalarımla öyle olduğunu tespit ettim. Yanlışsa düzeltebilirsiniz.)Dolayısıyla kafasındaki teorik bilgilerin çoğunu deneyselleştirmesinin henüz mümkün olmadığını birkaç bölümde dile getiriyor. Ben ki Karen Horney, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Malinowski, Evelyn Reed gibi yazarlardan ve külliyatı bir araya getiren Foucault'un Cinselliğin tarihini okumuş olan biri olarak, bu kitapta oldukça eksik
Wilheim Reich'ın cinsellik psikoterapistliği yaptığı ve bu doğrultuda yazdığı ilk kitabı. (Araştırmalarımla öyle olduğunu tespit ettim. Yanlışsa düzeltebilirsiniz.)Dolayısıyla kafasındaki teorik bilgilerin çoğunu deneyselleştirmesinin henüz mümkün olmadığını birkaç bölümde dile getiriyor. Ben ki Karen Horney, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Malinowski, Evelyn Reed gibi yazarlardan ve külliyatı bir araya getiren Foucault'un Cinselliğin tarihini okumuş olan biri olarak, bu kitapta oldukça eksik bulduğum bazı durumlar vardı. Kadın ve erkek üzerinden(diğer cinsel yönelimlere teyit geçmeyi bırak hiç söz etmeden) Freud'un salt çocuklukta başladığını öne sürdüğü Oedipus argümanına bazı noktalarda karşı çıkarak, yetişkin insanların da yaşamlarındaki değişim-dönüşümde cinselliği konumlandırdığı noktanın sonuçlarını yaşadığından bahsediyor. Reich’in kitabın başında Freud’un öğrencisi olarak, onu çok da üzmek istemediği açık. Daha evvel Jung, Eric Fromm, Otto Rank’in de onun öğrencisi olmasına rağmen ağır eleştiriler getirdiklerini görmüştüm. Bunu yine ilk kitabı olmasına mal edebiliriz, diğerlerini de okuyunca daha sağlıklı yorum yapabilirim sanıyorum. Aslında tüm sorunların kökeninde cinsellik baskısı olduğunu söylüyor. Bana göre bu noktada Foucault açıklamaları daha anlamlı. Çünkü bunun erk, güç, iktidar ilişkilerinin getirdiği bir sonuç yansıması olduğundan bahseder Foucault. 1920’li yıllarda yazılan bu kitabın, 1940’lı yıllardan da örnekler içermesi kitabın yazar tarafından güncellenmiş olduğunu aklıma getirdi. Ama gel gör ki, hep yokluğunu çektiğim kaçıncı baskıdan çeviri, hangi yılda yazılıp kaç kez baskı yapmış olduğu, hangi yıllarda güncellemeler içerdiğine dair bir bilgi bulabilmiş değilim. Yönetmen ve oyunculara ait filmografi, müzisyenlere dair diskografi bulabiliyorken yazarlara dair neden bu tür bir kaynak bulamıyoruz? Benim bilmediğim bir kaynak bilen varsa hemen söylesin ona kitap hediye edeceğim Kitapta birkaç yerde kadınları aşağılayan kelime kalıplarına rastladım. (kızkurusu vb.) Bunların Bertan Onaran’dan kaynaklı bir çeviri talihsizliği olmadığını düşünüyorum ya da böyle düşünüp sevdiğim bir çevirmene laf etmemek için kendimi dizginliyorum diyeyim.. Tabii Reich’in bu tutumu Malinowski’nin İlkel Toplumlarda cinsellik ve Baskı kitabındaki anaerkil toplum anlatımlarında biraz şaştı. Ataerkil başka bir kavim ile kıyaslamalarında açığa çıkardığı yönler Reich’İn de tarafımdan aklanmasını sağladı. Kitap salt boşalma ediminin aslında sinirce durumlarının ihtiyacı olan ve bunun farkında olup üzerine gidilmezse gölge tepkimeleriyle mücadele ediyor olacağımızı çok güzel özetlemiş. Kitabın genel akışı kendi ruhçözümlemeci tecrübeleriyle gittiği için gayet rahat adapte olunabilir nitelikte. Cinsel yaşamına dengeli bir düzenlilik getiren kişi ile dirimsel enerjinin sürekli gergin ve aktarılamamış, hayata geçirilememiş olan kişi arasındaki farkları oldukça detaylandırdığı örneklerle aktarıyor. “İçine hava vererek şişireceğimiz bir balon, patlamazsa, nasıl hareket eder acaba? Dış zarının uzayabildiğini, ama patlayamadığını varsayalım. Canlı çekirdeği kuşatan bir kılıf gibi canlandıran bu insan kişiliği imgesi çok yerindeydi. Balon, o çözümsüz gerilimi içerisinde konuşabilse halinden yakınırdı. Zayıflığından ötürü, çektiği acının nedenlerini dışarıda arayacak, durmadan çevresini suçlayacaktı. Birinin gelip kendisini patlatmasını isteyecekti. Amacına dilediği gibi ulaşana dek, çevresindekileri kışkırtacaktı. İçerden, kendiliğinden yapamadığı şeyi, kolu kanadı kırık, edilgin bir biçimde dışarıdan bekleyecekti.” “Sinir hastalığı, doğal cinsel hazza vurulan ketlerin toplamından başka bir şey değildir, bu ketlemeler zamanla, makinemsi bir hale gelir. Sinir hastalığının bütün öbür belirtileri, bu kökensel bozukluğun sonuçlarıdır.”
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Reich does a fantastic job of giving case examples and how he treated his patients. A few things to keep in mind: - this is just one approach to psychoanalysis. it doesn't mean every problem is psychosomatic; one should check for health issues first. but he does make the point that they can exacerbate one another (health vs. sexual issues). - i wish there was more information as to his specific methods of analyzing and what questions/prompts he used. i'd like to apply them to myself. - some of his
Reich does a fantastic job of giving case examples and how he treated his patients. A few things to keep in mind: - this is just one approach to psychoanalysis. it doesn't mean every problem is psychosomatic; one should check for health issues first. but he does make the point that they can exacerbate one another (health vs. sexual issues). - i wish there was more information as to his specific methods of analyzing and what questions/prompts he used. i'd like to apply them to myself. - some of his patients initially couldn't orgasm at all, while others could orgasm but just to get off or as a catharsis, or after being struck (as in bdsm) - without intimacy. in other words, emotion is completely replaced by superficial sensation. this is good material to go against the current consumerist commodification of sex in our culture.
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Dec 05, 2013
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Quite out of date in claiming that all neurotic psychological problems stem from repressed sexual urges, but definitely valuable to read as a historic volume in the study of psychology and sexology.
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May 01, 2007
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Some interesting ideas, including how people's inability to experience orgasm fully leads them toward fascism. Mr. Reich certainly has his heart in the right place, but I'm not sure his science is very well supported (orgone?). Only an "ok" read, as it is often tedious - it could be much condensed.
Some interesting ideas, including how people's inability to experience orgasm fully leads them toward fascism. Mr. Reich certainly has his heart in the right place, but I'm not sure his science is very well supported (orgone?). Only an "ok" read, as it is often tedious - it could be much condensed.
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I've always been fascinated by energies, auric fields etc., so wanted to read this to research Orgone energy. Fascinating book. Even though it's verbose, I couldn't put it down.
I've always been fascinated by energies, auric fields etc., so wanted to read this to research Orgone energy. Fascinating book. Even though it's verbose, I couldn't put it down.
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Nov 29, 2017
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Pese a ser un estudio científico, me parece ameno y lleno de fuerza y convicción; explica muy bien cómo llegó a formular la teoría del orgasmo y de la economía sexual y cómo fue llegando a ella con la praxis. Da cuenta también de su relación con Freud y el psicoanálisis y te haces una idea de esos años en los que Europa se vio asolada por el fascismo... Si añadimos esa inquebrantable voluntad de buscar el bienestar de los humanos, no solo del individuo, sino de la sociedad entera y su defensa de
Pese a ser un estudio científico, me parece ameno y lleno de fuerza y convicción; explica muy bien cómo llegó a formular la teoría del orgasmo y de la economía sexual y cómo fue llegando a ella con la praxis. Da cuenta también de su relación con Freud y el psicoanálisis y te haces una idea de esos años en los que Europa se vio asolada por el fascismo... Si añadimos esa inquebrantable voluntad de buscar el bienestar de los humanos, no solo del individuo, sino de la sociedad entera y su defensa de una sexualidad natural, sin represiones... podemos felicitarnos de la valentía de este hombre! Recomiendo acercarse sin prejuicios a su figura y su obra.
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The Discovery of the Life Energy, Vol.1, by Wilhelm Reich. Follows Reich's initial work with Freud; the discovery of the energetic connection between the psyche and soma; the role of sexuality, especially in orgasm, in establishing emotional and physical health, and the discovery of the orgone, or life energy. Covers Reich's therapeutic method, as it evolved from the early character-analytic vegetotherapy, into orgone therapy. A milestone set of discoveries, nearly lost to the world due to the a
The Discovery of the Life Energy, Vol.1, by Wilhelm Reich. Follows Reich's initial work with Freud; the discovery of the energetic connection between the psyche and soma; the role of sexuality, especially in orgasm, in establishing emotional and physical health, and the discovery of the orgone, or life energy. Covers Reich's therapeutic method, as it evolved from the early character-analytic vegetotherapy, into orgone therapy. A milestone set of discoveries, nearly lost to the world due to the actions of angry and irrational psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, who were (and continue to be) champions of sex-repression and psychopathological "normalcy" as "health". - Iam incredibly blessed to have found a rare copy of the first edition on Orgonotic Press from 1945.
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Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst has written this detailed work on how he has with immense sincerity understood the function of the orgasm. Through studying sexually sick patients and with great dedication coming to new conclusion about the "sex problem". Which is definitely as disturbing today as it was at Reich's time. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding sexuality problems and the underlying science of sex from a different point of view.
Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst has written this detailed work on how he has with immense sincerity understood the function of the orgasm. Through studying sexually sick patients and with great dedication coming to new conclusion about the "sex problem". Which is definitely as disturbing today as it was at Reich's time. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding sexuality problems and the underlying science of sex from a different point of view.
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Sexual activity generally plays a major role in bonobo society, being used as what some scientists perceive as a greeting, a means of forming social bonds, a means of conflict resolution, and postconflict reconciliation. Bonobos are the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in tongue kissing. Bonobos and humans are the only primates to typically engage in face-to-face genital sex, although a pair of western gorillas has been photographed in this position.
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Jun 17, 2013
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Every people must read this book...
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Nov 14, 2010
Zoe Zuniga
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I skimmed some of this, it was really technical. the author was a scientist not a writer so it is not very accessible.
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Kitaba verdiğim düşük not tamamen çevirmene yazılmalı. Bertan Onaran öztürkçe saplantısıyla bir kitabın daha canına okumuş. Terminolojiyi hadım etmiş. "Evrim" "Kaygı" "Nevroz" gibi kelimeleri; yaratıcılıktan uzak, komik, hatta aptalca kavramlarla karşılamış. Bir cümleyi tam anlamak üzereyken, Onaran kötü öztürkçesiyle cümleyi kılıçtan geçiriyor. Kitabı okuyup beğenenler varsa şunu söylemiş olayım: "Ne anladınız bilmiyorum ama muhtemelen yanlış anladınız." Say ve Payel'in psikoloji serisinden, öz
Kitaba verdiğim düşük not tamamen çevirmene yazılmalı. Bertan Onaran öztürkçe saplantısıyla bir kitabın daha canına okumuş. Terminolojiyi hadım etmiş. "Evrim" "Kaygı" "Nevroz" gibi kelimeleri; yaratıcılıktan uzak, komik, hatta aptalca kavramlarla karşılamış. Bir cümleyi tam anlamak üzereyken, Onaran kötü öztürkçesiyle cümleyi kılıçtan geçiriyor. Kitabı okuyup beğenenler varsa şunu söylemiş olayım: "Ne anladınız bilmiyorum ama muhtemelen yanlış anladınız." Say ve Payel'in psikoloji serisinden, özelde de Bertan Onaran çevirilerinden uzak durmanızı tavsiye ederim.
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Although broad and maybe unscientific in its conclusions, its anthropological findings are fascinating, making it a good read I will definitely have to revisit at some point to refresh my memory.
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pleasure contra entropy sexuality contra anxiety freedom contra fascism in the body of love that is the tao / everyone deserves head pats i want to cry
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I have no idea if there is any other author, writen so wide and analytic about the body of sexs and sex. "گوش کن آدمک" تنها اثر ویلهم رایش، روانشناس، پژوهشگر و زیباشناس آلمانی ست که توسط حسین آقایاری به فارسی ترجمه شده و البته در خارج از کشور چاپ و منتشر شده است. انتشارات نوید، آلمان، 1365 دکتر رایش که به متخصص امور جنسی هم مشهور است و آثار تکان دهنده ای در این زمینه نوشته، بانی نگاهی تازه به مساله جنس ، بدن زن و مرد و بنیادهای فیزیکی و روانی مسایل جنسی ست. اثار او بصورت گسترده ای در همه ی زبان ها
I have no idea if there is any other author, writen so wide and analytic about the body of sexs and sex. "گوش کن آدمک" تنها اثر ویلهم رایش، روانشناس، پژوهشگر و زیباشناس آلمانی ست که توسط حسین آقایاری به فارسی ترجمه شده و البته در خارج از کشور چاپ و منتشر شده است. انتشارات نوید، آلمان، 1365 دکتر رایش که به متخصص امور جنسی هم مشهور است و آثار تکان دهنده ای در این زمینه نوشته، بانی نگاهی تازه به مساله جنس ، بدن زن و مرد و بنیادهای فیزیکی و روانی مسایل جنسی ست. اثار او بصورت گسترده ای در همه ی زبان های اروپایی مورد استفاده قرار گرفته و در اکثر انستیتوها جزو ماده های درسی بوده است. برخی از آثار دکتر ویلهم رایش حتی در کشورهای غربی هم مدت ها اجازه ی چاپ و انتشار نداشتند.
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I finally finished this, after reading it on and off for a couple of years. Reich's writing can be overly academic and dry. The main things I took away from "The Function Of The Orgasm" are Reich's concept of 'muscular armor' and the account of his tumultuous professional relationship with Sigmund Freud. He also goes into his discovery of an energy he referred to as the 'orgone', which is similar to earlier concepts like animal magnestism. There's plenty of information on-line about orgone, if yo
I finally finished this, after reading it on and off for a couple of years. Reich's writing can be overly academic and dry. The main things I took away from "The Function Of The Orgasm" are Reich's concept of 'muscular armor' and the account of his tumultuous professional relationship with Sigmund Freud. He also goes into his discovery of an energy he referred to as the 'orgone', which is similar to earlier concepts like animal magnestism. There's plenty of information on-line about orgone, if you're interested in exploring Reich's theory. While I don't completely believe in Reich's discovery, it certainly intrigues me. Onto "The Mass Psychology Of Fascism".
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Dec 27, 2008
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Certainly a bit outdated - all about neuroses stemming from sexual repression. He started out as Freud's student but broke w/ him when Freud said sexuality came on at a certain age (I think 4 or 5?). Reich believes sexuality is socially influenced from the time of infancy. I really like his ideas - I don't know how Freud got so popular while so few have heard of Reich.
Certainly a bit outdated - all about neuroses stemming from sexual repression. He started out as Freud's student but broke w/ him when Freud said sexuality came on at a certain age (I think 4 or 5?). Reich believes sexuality is socially influenced from the time of infancy. I really like his ideas - I don't know how Freud got so popular while so few have heard of Reich.
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Like most of Reich's books there are revisions made after the point where he started to go wrong. But when this book is good, it is "good as gold." So one point off for Bions and Orgone.
Like most of Reich's books there are revisions made after the point where he started to go wrong. But when this book is good, it is "good as gold." So one point off for Bions and Orgone.
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I only bought this as a Grant Morrison fanboy, and I passed it on many years ago. Can't say I remember much about it.
I only bought this as a Grant Morrison fanboy, and I passed it on many years ago. Can't say I remember much about it.
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All things considered, an intriguing though somewhat dated read. I enjoyed Reich’s insider perspective on the rise of fascism (Streicher’s racialist propaganda etc.) following the First World War and also his eventual break with the Psychoanalytic Society in Vienna. Regarding the latter, I’m not sure I agree with so-called deficiencies expurgated in Character Analysis as the primary basis for a rise in authoritarianism. This was a hasty stretch in light of economic analysis and not the psychic v
All things considered, an intriguing though somewhat dated read. I enjoyed Reich’s insider perspective on the rise of fascism (Streicher’s racialist propaganda etc.) following the First World War and also his eventual break with the Psychoanalytic Society in Vienna. Regarding the latter, I’m not sure I agree with so-called deficiencies expurgated in Character Analysis as the primary basis for a rise in authoritarianism. This was a hasty stretch in light of economic analysis and not the psychic variety albeit the two are pretty much in bed together. Oh, the irony. Throughout the work Reich has a tendency towards a kind of essentialism which I think clouds his objectivity. He finds what he’s hoping to find again and again which strikes me as a little more than mere scientific beginner’s luck. Moreover, he insists ad nausea that orgastic potency is behind every singular event within human nature. I don’t dispute the fact that it’s an integral aspect of almost everything sociological, political, and physiological but I’m going to have to side with Jung on this one: it’s not the only piece in the puzzle. For all his professional disdain of Alfred Adler, I have to say “Al, I’m with you. I’m skeptical. Maybe this Reich guy has beat his meat one too many times.” Just joking. The case histories were bizarre, even more so than Freud’s in my opinion, and quite often Reich’s conclusions about the pelvic nature of neuroses was doubly bizarre. I’m glad I read this work as it is of paramount cultural importance. However, I definitely read it with a grain of salt and many times rather begrudgingly as Reich’s diction can tend towards repetition in the extreme. It also bothered me how Reich chose to pick a bone with mystical experience without offering any sort of qualified knowledge on a subject he clearly has more misgivings than informed subjective experience to provide. The way in which he picks a bone with yoga is almost worse than his condemnation of national socialism— it just seemed a bit irrelevant and xenophobic to me. Furthermore, for all of his insistence on the errors of “oceanic” feeling I find it rather curious that the book ends with Reich’s discovery that the universe is imbued with a “cosmic energy” that interpenetrates all living matter. Sounded a tad transcendental and dare I say: yogic given his previous intellectual positions. But I digress. Despite these shortcomings (and there are many) I’d still love to get my hands on an orgone box and see what functional effect, if any, it could have on me and my “potency”.
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I’d read & heard a lot about Reich prior to picking up this, his first book. Initially through Robert Anton Wilson’s work & latterly through a book called “Alien Energy” by Andrew Collins I was interested to learn more about orgone energy from the man who discovered it. Actually very readable, the book leads the reader through Reich’s progress through the psychoanalysis movement under Freud from which is eventually estranges himself ultimately with his own theories & paradigms. I found his impos
I’d read & heard a lot about Reich prior to picking up this, his first book. Initially through Robert Anton Wilson’s work & latterly through a book called “Alien Energy” by Andrew Collins I was interested to learn more about orgone energy from the man who discovered it. Actually very readable, the book leads the reader through Reich’s progress through the psychoanalysis movement under Freud from which is eventually estranges himself ultimately with his own theories & paradigms. I found his imposition of his political positions a little frustrating at times, his fixation with the psychology of fascism a little forced & one dimensional. There might have been a more comprehensive way to illustrate the phenomenon of mass psychology. Odd too is his antagonistic attitude to yoga & eastern meditation practices, which, like his political assertions I can only ascribe to lack of proper understanding or knowledge since many of his later discoveries seem to mirror concepts of chi & prana very closely. On the other hand, his insights about muscular armouring & the anchoring of characteristics in the body were utterly fascinating as well as discovery & description of orgone itself. Essential reading for anyone interested in vitalism, and one of its rare scientific proponents in the west.
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Renetta Neal
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I found the language of this book very technical but I was fascinated and determined to stick with it. Amongst other things, I am struck by the fact that this book was written in the 1930's and the knowledge in it is so new to me. Suggestions of how the education system stifle the life energy.....not such a new concept then and not many improvements there yet I fear!
I found the language of this book very technical but I was fascinated and determined to stick with it. Amongst other things, I am struck by the fact that this book was written in the 1930's and the knowledge in it is so new to me. Suggestions of how the education system stifle the life energy.....not such a new concept then and not many improvements there yet I fear!
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some pure cooky ideas (fascism & cancer both caused by dammed up sexual energies, atmospheric slow-moving orgone energies), some clever but cooky (the bioelectric energy meant to be delivered to the sexual organ is put to misuse when dammed up and erroneously redirected to organs like the head and heart which make negative use of its impulses - like putting diesel in non-diesel engine) and some outright good ones, including that whole breakdown of character armor and neurotic sublimation that in
some pure cooky ideas (fascism & cancer both caused by dammed up sexual energies, atmospheric slow-moving orgone energies), some clever but cooky (the bioelectric energy meant to be delivered to the sexual organ is put to misuse when dammed up and erroneously redirected to organs like the head and heart which make negative use of its impulses - like putting diesel in non-diesel engine) and some outright good ones, including that whole breakdown of character armor and neurotic sublimation that integrates one into functioning society without resolving those first issues which bar them. - the centrality of surrender to (psychological) potency. just skimmed a lot of the last few chapters but felt like i got the jist of the book. may have to come back to reich one day, have been eyeing that "mass psychology of fascism" book for years now - the brutal beauty of its title - but for the moment feel my interest (though not my biolectricity) sated. i believe someone can be a useful and even great theorist without speaking a single word of sense.
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Jewish Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics,
Jewish Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, and ethics, his work influenced writers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, A. S. Neill, and William Burroughs. He was also a controversial figure, who came to be viewed by the psychoanalytic establishment as having gone astray or as having succumbed to mental illness. His work on the link between human sexuality and neuroses emphasized "orgastic potency" as the foremost criterion for psycho-physical health. He said he had discovered a form of energy, which he called "orgone," that permeated the atmosphere and all living matter, and he built "orgone accumulators," which his patients sat inside to harness the energy for its reputed health benefits. It was this work, in particular, that cemented the rift between Reich and the psychoanalytic establishment. Reich, of Jewish descent and a communist, was living in Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power. He fled to Scandinavia in 1933 and subsequently to the United States in 1939. In 1947, following a series of critical articles about orgone and his political views in The New Republic and Harper's , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began an investigation into his claims, winning an injunction against the interstate sale of orgone accumulators. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own defense, which involved sending the judge all his books to read, and arguing that a court was no place to decide matters of science. He was sentenced to two years in prison, and in August 1956, several tons of his publications were burned by the FDA. He died of heart failure in jail just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.
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