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Deadly orgone,
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Ignore the dismissive comments of Tony Thomas regarding orgonomy. He says that it doesn't resemble science, but not all sciences have been discovered yet. Reich attempted to study a phenomena which had no established means of observation, and when he couldn't cure cancer quickly enough, was treated worse than any scientist since the Renaissance, perhaps. Because of this, you'll hear a lot of people with views based on the propaganda released when the government sought agreement from their supporters to deny Reich his rights. These layman will never claim to possess evidence that his work is mumbo jumbo, because saying that he was a crazy communist is much more effective propaganda.
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This is a splendid book that show us how important and powerful is sexuality in a human life.
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the most approachable introduction to Reich,
By Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure (Paperback)
In this book you can read about revolutionary attempts to build camps for "deliquent" children in the early pre-Stalinization Soviet Union. In this book, you can learn the importance of the fight of young people for healthy sexual activity, and the negative neurotic damage done by this society's anti-sexual repression. You can read this in relatively short articles Reich wrote on a variety of topics collected here under this name.
This book is the most approachable introduction to Reich's positive contributions on the role of sexuality in capitalist society, on destruction of compulsory sex morality, and about what a new freer less pathological world would be like. Most of his other books were reedited in the 1940s and 1950s and smothered with the mumbo jumbo of his "orgone biopathy" theories. These theories were more of an expression of Reich's mental breakdown under the hammer blows of Stalinism, Fascism, and Americanism, than anything resembling science. Perhaps this book has less of that because almost all of Reich's works were banned by the US government during the 1950s through the late 1960s. This was the first one of his books legally published (I remember reading bootleg editions of his work before then) after that ban and might have less of that stuff for that reason. Whatever people misremember about the 1960s, it was quite revolutionary to see this book with this author and this title in bookstores in 1968! If you have never read Reich, or if you have been turned off by the insanity of orgone theory, this will be a pleasant surprise.
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conservative sexology, compulsive marriage, compulsive family, compulsive morality, lasting sexual relationship, permanent sexual relationship, sexual guilt feelings, youth communes, sexual legislation, sexual misery, sexual living, sexual suppression, genital gratification, marital morality, antisocial impulses, sex reform, sexual reform, sexual crisis, psychoanalytic findings, population politicians, triangle structure, sexual chaos, sexual happiness, lifelong monogamy, natural sexuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- SEXUAL REVOLUTON P by Wilhelm reich in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Function of the Orgasm; Sex-economic Problems of Biological Energy by Wilhelm reich in Front Matter
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by A. T. White on page 216
- Companionate Marriage (Family in America) by Ben B. Lindsey on page 147
- Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto in Back Matter
- The Novels Of Ross Macdonald by Michael Kreyling in Back Matter
- The Politics of Death: A Sociological Analysis of Revolutionary Communication by Michael Jay Blain in Back Matter
- Sexuality and Women With Learning Disabilities by Michelle McCarthy in Back Matter
- Sexual Revolution by Jeffrey Escoffier in Back Matter
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