I would say Character Analysis is his best book. The rest didn't pan out so well.
Could be. After all he was an anti-fascist when fascists were taking over Europe.He died from lack of medical care in an American jail under trumped up charges.For political reasons, not because he was wrong or right.
I have done Reichian Therapy with the Reichian therapist, Lara Amber, trained at the Radix Institute, New Mexico.
Has anyone here ever read any Wilhelm Reich?
Any recomendations? I'm interested in The Mass Psychology of Fascism as well as Character Analysis. Are those good ones to start off with?
Character Analysis is great, plus free of the Orgone, mystic orgasm energy stuff, I also would really recommend The Murder of Jesus Christ and Listen, Little Man!
I really like Reich, especially the more Marxist stuff but I do think he was traumatized and made ill, I dont know if the Feds drove him mad like Abbie Hoffman but someone did. The whole masturbating in a portaloo to regenerate the cosmic energy flows stuff is just crackpot quackry if ever there was crackpot quakery.
Then again if you read it in some ways it is eros, libido etc. as hypothesised by Freud taken to a logical extreme.
I have done Reichian Therapy with the Reichian therapist, Lara Amber, trained at the Radix Institute, New Mexico.
Character Analysis is great, plus free of the Orgone, mystic orgasm energy stuff, I also would really recommend The Murder of Jesus Christ and Listen, Little Man!
I really like Reich, especially the more Marxist stuff but I do think he was traumatized and made ill, I dont know if the Feds drove him mad like Abbie Hoffman but someone did. The whole masturbating in a portaloo to regenerate the cosmic energy flows stuff is just crackpot quackry if ever there was crackpot quakery.
Then again if you read it in some ways it is eros, libido etc. as hypothesised by Freud taken to a logical extreme.
The orgone stuff doesn't seem that bad, it is an extention of Freud's theories and that's what I like about it, but it isn't the most interesting aspect of his work IMO, though I've yet to explore his work.
The libraries in Brussels have some of his works but not Character Analysis. I just don't wanna pay €20 or more for it, since that's the price it's being sold for online.
Anyways, the consenus seems to on Character Analysis. Based on reviews I've read it does seem to be his best work, too.
The dissonance between anti-fascist Reich and fascist Jung is only matched by the consonance of mbti.
We are deaf to the dissonance and believe the lie of consonance.
Fascism is the seductive lie of consonance while liberal democracy is dissonant.
Incorrect. It is not Freud taken to a logical extreme. Freud did not see it that way either, as he did not believe that human sexuality was the only factor involved in deriving the causes of neuroses. They also differed in their theories of what constituted sexual maturity.
What is difficult to digest is that Jung's psychosis was systematically concealed from his followers for more than seventy years.
Now that we know, we continue to follow Jung. What does this say about us?
It says we have no integrity.
Not to mention Reich's idiopathic narcissism.
The important question is what are we concealing on typology central?
The dissonance between anti-fascist Reich and fascist Jung is only matched by the consonance of mbti.
We are deaf to the dissonance and believe the lie of consonance.
Fascism is the seductive lie of consonance while liberal democracy is dissonant.