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Over twenty years Wilhelm Reich, a psychologist and doctor of
medicine, studied the relationship between the emotional,
physiological and physical functions of biological energy. He saw
the orgasm as the key to the body's energy metabolism, discovering
that the biological emotions governing the psychic processes are
themselves the immediate expression of strictly physical energy -
which he named the cosmic orgone. Initially derided, Reich's
theories are now seen as crucial to our understanding of ourselves
and our fellow men. In appreciating why the orgasm brings a feeling
of physical and emotional well-being, we can also gain insight into
the physical and emotional ills that result from a thwarting of
this bioenergetic function. Many researches into psychic energy
believe that the aura recorded by Kirlian photography is nothing
less than the manifestation of Reich's orgone energy.
Wilhelm Reich's classic study is a unique contribution to the
understanding of one of the crucial phenomena of our times -
fascism. Reich firmly repudiates the concept that fascism is the
ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or of any
ethnic or political group. He also denies a purely socio-economic
explanation as advanced by Marxian ideologists. He understands
fascism as the expression of irrational character structure of the
average human being whose primary biological needs and impulses
have been suppressed for thousands of years. The social function of
this suppression and the crucial role played in it by the
authoritarian family and the church are carefully analysed. Reich
shows how every form of organised mysticism, including fascism,
relies on the unsatisfied orgastic longing of the masses.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm
Reich's writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957,
had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human
suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from
medical school to join the early pioneers of Freudian
psychoanalysis, and then to some of the most controversial work of
this century-his development of the theory of the orgone-led him
also, at one period of his life, to become a radical socialist. The
renewed interest in Reich's Marxist writings, and particularly in
his notions about sexual and political liberation, follows the
radical critiques of Herbert Marcuse, Frantz Fanon and Paul
Goodman, the political protest movements toward personal liberation
in the present decade.
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