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There is scholarship on those other parts of Reich’s work, though even in the history of psychoanalysis there has usually been silence on Reich or the same old “black boxed” dismissal, and few take his research program seriously.
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To be sure, Reich’s work is remarkably of a piece, and one cannot describe even the logic that led him into the laboratory without setting that logic in the context of the larger body of work. It is about Reich’s work as a laboratory scientist-at least his first foray into that realm in 1934–1939.
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This book is not primarily about Wilhelm Reich the psychoanalyst, the social and political thinker, and the pioneer of body therapies. However, one group for whom that was never true was scientists. In the 1968 student uprisings, Reich’s writings were considered seminal as a roadmap for dealing with reactionary tendencies in both political and sexual revolutions Reich was a big name in many American and European intellectual circles. Important thinkers who foresaw and acted as midwife to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. This and his incisive 1936 critique of political reaction on all these fronts in the Soviet Union under Stalin, Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf (translated into English in 1945 as The Sexual Revolution), have led to his being widely regarded as one of the most 1 He was central in the creation of a Sex Political (SexPol) movement in late Weimar Germany, tens of thousands strong. Similarly, Reich campaigned to liberalize divorce laws and laws against abortion and homosexuality, and to spread birth control education and access among the working classes. Having pioneered techniques such as character analysis and working directly with patients’ emotions bound up in rigid muscular tensions-what he called “muscular armoring”-Reich is highly regarded among therapeutic and self-help circles as the “father of body therapies,” “decades ahead of his time” in that regard. Reich is famous as a brilliant pupil of Freud who developed character analysis and other breakthroughs in analytic technique, as the creator of an innovative synthesis between psychoanalysis and Marxist dialectical materialist philosophy, and as a keen political critic and author of a landmark 1933 analysis of the Nazis’ skilled manipulation of the helplessness of the masses, The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Reich eventually came to America in 1939, hoping to find a home where finally his scientific research would be protected from such government-sponsored attacks. Surely no one felt the injustice of the act more keenly than Reich himself, having narrowly escaped Nazi Germany in April 1933 not long before the Nazis burned his books. history, as New York publisher Roger Straus was heard to remark many times over decades afterward, explaining why his firm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, steadfastly brought all of Reich’s published works back into print beginning in 1960. This was one of the most heinous acts of censorship in U.S. government supervised the public burning of the books and scientific instruments of Austrian-born scientist Wilhelm Reich. N 1956 and again in 1960, officers of the U.S. Glossary Reich’s Bion Preparation Types Dramatis Personae Chronology Periodicals Important in the Norwegian Press Campaign Archives Consulted Notes Acknowledgments Index SAPA Bions and Reich’s Departure for the United States An Independent Scientist: The Basic Theoretical and Methodological Features of Sex-Economic Researchħ.
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Reich and du Teil: Control Experiments BeginĤ. Reich’s Background, Origins of His Research Program, and Relevant ContextĢ. Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2015Ĭopyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from the Library of Congress ISBN: 978-9-2 (alk.