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wilhelm reich orgasm: The Discovery of the Orgone Wilhelm Reich, 1948 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Adventures in the Orgasmatron Dr Christopher Turner, Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story: an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. |
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wilhelm reich orgasm: People In Trouble Wilhelm Reich, 2013-07-02 First published by Reich in 1953, People in Trouble is an autobiographical work in which Reich describes the development of his sociological thinking from 1927 to 1937. In simple narrative form he recounts his personal experiences with major social and political events and ideas, and reveals how these experiences gradually led him to an awareness of the deep significance of the human character structure in shaping and responding to the social process. The importance of Karl Marx's work and its distortion by communist politicians plays an important role in Reich's account, as does the political activity in the International Psychoanalytic Association which led to his expulsion from that organization in 1934. The Norwegian press campaign against his biological experiments is also discussed. People in Trouble is the story of one man's courageous struggle to understand the political activity of his fellow men. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich, 1986-05 This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work onthe 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. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Where's the Truth? Wilhelm Reich, 2012-08-07 Where's the Truth? is the fourth and final volume of Wilhelm Reich's autobiographical writings, drawn from his diaries, letters, and laboratory notebooks. These writings reveal the details of the outrider scientist's life—his joys and sorrows, his hopes and insecurities—and chronicle his experiments with what he called orgone energy. A student of Freud's and a prominent research physician in the early psychoanalytic movement, Reich immigrated to America in 1939 in flight from Nazism, and pursued research about orgone energy functions in the living organism and the atmosphere. Where's the Truth? begins in January 1948, shortly after Reich became a target of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. He had already faced persecution by the U.S. government, having been mistaken by the State Department and the FBI for both a Communist and a Nazi. Starting in 1947, Reich was hounded by the FDA, which, in 1954, obtained an injunction by default against him that enabled it to burn six tons of his published books and research journals, and to ban the use of one of his most important experimental research tools—the orgone energy accumulator. Challenging the right of a court to judge basic scientific research, Reich was imprisoned in March 1957 and died in the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, eight months later. The text gathered here shows Reich's steadfast determination to protect his work. Where's the truth? he asked a lawyer, and that question animates this volume and rounds out our understanding of a unique, irrepressible modern figure. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich, 1961 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety Wilhelm Reich, 2013-07-02 Looking back over the development of orgone biophysics, Reich wrote: My experimental studies during the years 1934 to 1938 gradually and logically centered on a single basic problem: how deeply is the function of the orgasm rooted in biology? The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety is composed of three essential contributions from the period: The Orgasm as an Electrophysiological Discharge, Sexuality and Anxiety, and The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety, Reich's detailed report on the physiological experiments in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory. The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety can with good reason be understood as a logical continuation of my Character Analysis, Reich wrote. It is the character analysis of the areas of biological functioning. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Children of the Future Wilhelm Reich, 1984-07 In this gathering of his writing on children, Reich demonstrates the impact of the environment of the infant, showing how it can warp the child's development. He points particularly to how disastrous the exclusion of genitality is to the child. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Quest for Wilhelm Reich Colin Wilson, 1981 In a significant reassessment of Reich's ideas and works, Wilson combines interviews of those once associated with the controversial psychoanalyst and intensive analyses of Reich's theories to produce a substantial account of Reich's misunderstood genius. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Sexual Revolution Wilhelm Reich, 2023-10 In this book, Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of the prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic medical experiences over a period of years. He demonstrates, by way of individual examples, the general basic traits of the conflicts in present-day sexual living, dealing particularly with the institution of marriage and the revolution in family life as well as with the problems of infantile and adolescent sexuality. He also presents a detailed and revealing study of the sexual revolution that occurred briefly in Soviet Russia in the first few years of their economic revolution. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Mass Psychology of Fascism Wilhelm Reich, 2023-11-27 Wilhelm Reich's classic study, written during the years of the German crisis, 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 any ethnic or political group. He also denies a purely socio-economic explanation as advanced by Marxist ideologists. He understands fascism as the expression of the 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 analyzed. Reich shows how every form of organized mysticism, including fascism, relies on the unsatisfied orgastic longing of the masses.The importance of this work today cannot be underestimated. The human character structure that created organized fascist movements still exists, dominating our present social conflicts. If the chaotic agony of our times is ever to be eliminated, we must turn our attention to the character structure that creates it; we must understand the mass psychology of fascism. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Everybody: A Book about Freedom Olivia Laing, 2021-05-04 Astute and consistently surprising critic (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Me and the Orgone Orson Bean, 2000 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy Ola Raknes, 2004 Here is an authoritative introduction to Wilhelm Reich's science of life energy, or orgonomy. Ola Raknes covers every aspect of this controversial subject, explaining among much else the liberation of sexual energy, the nature of functional thinking, mind-body functional identity, the four-beat orgasm formula, and the bearing of life energy on religion, education, medicine and psychology. In addition, his own reminiscences provide an unexpected personal dimension. At the time of Reich's death in a federal penitentiary, Raknes was one of the few men still loyal to him and one of the few to enjoy his full confidence. Because Raknes worked so closely with Reich and later followed every development of orgonomic research, Wilhlem Reich and Orgonomy fills an important place both in the context of Reich's own writings and in current studies of life energy. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex Christopher Turner, 2011-08-04 The story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud’s couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: A Book of Dreams Peter Reich, 2011-02-08 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Selected Writings, an Introduction to Orgonomy Wilhelm Reich, 1960 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality Wilhelm Reich, 2013-07-02 This study of the invasion of compulsory sexual morality into human society was written in 1931 and now appears for the first time in the English language. It preceded The Mass Psyhchology of Fascism and The Sexual Revolution and was Reich's first step in approaching the answer to the problem of human mass neuroses. Growing out of his involvement with the crucial question of the origin of sexual suppression, this attempt to explain historically the problem of sexual disturbances and neuroses draws upon the ethnological works of Morgan, Engels and, in particular, Malinowski, whose remarkable studies of the sexual life and customs of the primitive people of the Trobriand Islands confirmed Reich's clinical discoveries. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Sex-Pol Wilhelm Reich, 2014-08-26 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. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Wilhelm Reich and the Healing of Atmospheres Roberto Maglione, 2011-11 A scientific overview of Wilhelm Reich's discovery of the atmospheric orgone or life-energy, and applications of Cosmic Orgone Engineering, or cloudbusting as it is more popularly known. Covers Reich's experiments, and those of his associates, with sections devoted to more recent CORE research by: Richard Blasband, Jerome Eden, and James DeMeo, among others. Presents experiments for drought-abatement and greening of deserts in the USA, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, all with positive results supportive of Reich's original claims. Comprehensive with numerous photos, diagrams, graphs and full citation-lists. Translated from the original Italian, with a Foreword by James DeMeo. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Fury On Earth Myron Sharaf, 1994-03-22 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Wilhelm Reich Robert S. Corrington, 2003-07-14 A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant, maligned psychoanalytic thinker Robert S. Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reich's life and work since Reich's death in 1957. Reich was seventeen years old at the outbreak of World War I and had already witnessed the suicides of his mother and father. A native of Vienna, he became a disciple of Freud; but by his late twenties, having already written his classic The Function of the Orgasm, he fled the Third Reich and departed, too, from Freudian psychoanalysis. In The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Reich first took the now classic position that social behavior has its every root in sexual behavior and repression. But the psychoanalytic community was made uncomfortable by this claim, and it was said -- by the time of Reich's death in an American prison on dubious charges brought by the federal government -- that Reich had squandered his prodigal genius and surrendered to his own paranoia and psychosis, an opinion still responsible for the neglect and misconception of Reich's contribution to psychology. In this transfixing psychobiography, Corrington illuminates the themes and obsessions that unify Reich's work and reports on Reich's fascinating, unrelenting one-man quest to probe the ultimate structures of self, world, and cosmos. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich, 2023-10 Wilhelm Reich was born in Austro-Hungary in 1897. After becoming a doctor of medicine and prominent psychoanalyst in Sigmund Freud's inner circle by the 1920s, Reich went on to focus his attention on the relationship between the emotional, physiological and physical functions of the biological energy underlying human emotional experience, which he called orgone. He saw psyche and soma as a unified whole and the goal of therapy to balance the body's energy metabolism by dissolving characterological and muscular defenses which he called armor. He saw the function of the orgasm, which he described as any natural living process involving the buildup of mechanical tension, energetic charge, energetic discharge and mechanical relaxation, as central to the understanding of healthy functioning. This book is a kind of scientific autobiography in which the author traces his personal and professional development from his first interactions with Freud and psychoanalysis in 1919 through the approximately 20 tumultuous and highly productive years that followed. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Jacques Lacan Elizabeth Grosz, 2002-09-11 Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis Wilhelm Reich, 1981-03 This volume contains the extensive revisions that Reich made to his made to his groundbreaking 1927 study on the function of the orgasm. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Orgone Accumulator Handbook James DeMeo, 2010 In the 1940s, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed discovery of a new form of energy. Declaring the orgone energy does not exist, U.S. courts ordered all books on the orgone subject to be banned. Reich was thrown into prison, where he died. Dr. DeMeo examines Reich's evidence and reports on his own observations and laboratory experiments, which confirm the reality of the orgone phenomenon. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm Peter Fritz Walter, 2015-07-17 'Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm' (Great Minds Series, Vol. 11)-2017 Revised, Updated and Reformatted Edition-is a study about one of the greatest authorities on the discovery of the bioenergy for modern science and medical science. The author understands his engagement for Reich as a contribution to the rehabilitation of one of the greatest, but also one of the most misunderstood scientists of the 20th century. Reich's Greatest Discoveries is a science essay about Wilhelm Reich's unique orgone research, a new branch of science that at present gains importance because it has shown us ways out of the ecological impasse. Wilhelm Reich, as early as in 1945, achieved complete healing of a female schizophrenic patient using bioenergetic or, as Reich termed it, orgonotic treatment. Many know about the ground-breaking work of Ronald David Laing regarding the alternative treatment of schizophrenia. However, small is the number of individuals who have noticed that Wilhelm Reich's research and mental health treatment approach by far preceded those much more well-known and acclaimed methods. In fact, Reich achieved remarkable results with simply redirecting the patient's orgonotic energy flow which has revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia. The book comes with a bonus essay about Reich in German language as well as a review of Michel Odent's book 'The Functions of the Orgasms (2009).' |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Love and Orgasm Alexander Lowen, 2013-12-01 Exploring the interaction between personality and sexual function, Lowen writes that the way you function sexually is the way you are, and shows that fulfillment in sexual love can be achieved only by those who are in touch with their bodies and in contact with their feelings. Back in print, this classic work is a core element of Alexander Lowen's Bio-energetics program. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Emotional Armoring Morton Herskowitz, 1997 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich, Theodore Peter Wolfe, William Steig, 1972 Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a representative of the people, he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Ether, God & Devil & Cosmic Superimposition Wilhelm Reich, 2023-12 There is great excitement and interest today in what is described as the paradigm shift in science. Humanity's understanding of the universe and its place in it is changing dramatically. Wilhelm Reich's Ether, God and Devil (1949) and Cosmic Superimposition (1951) are two groundbreaking books that helped initiate the current paradigm shift long before the concept was popularized in Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the later works of such best-selling authors as Fritjof Capra, Gary Zukav, Timothy Ferris, and many more.In Ether, God and Devil, Reich describes his process of thinking-which he called orgonomic functionalism-and shows how the inner logic of this objective thought technique led him to the discovery of the cosmic orgone energy.In Cosmic Superimposition, Reich steps out of our current framework of mechanistic-mystical thinking and comes to a radically different understanding of how man is rooted in nature. He shows clearly how the superimposition of two orgone energy streams-demonstrable in the human genital embrace and in the formation of spiral galaxies-is the common functioning principle in all of nature. Concluding this work, Reich ponders what is perhaps the greatest riddle of all: the ability of man to think, and by mere thinking to know what nature is and how it works.Together, these two works usher in a fundamentally new view of humanity, nature, and man's place in the cosmos. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Sexual Struggle of Youth Wilhelm Reich, 1972 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Prisoner of Sex Norman Mailer, 1971 |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Contact with Space Wilhelm Reich, 1985-12-15 Contact With Space contains the result of six years of intensive research and fieldwork. It is a work of extraordinary depth and scope, containing hitherto top-secret information. It is an exposition of the newest developments in the technology of cosmic orgone engineering, involving the use of the Spacegun - an extension of the Cloudbuster made possible by the discovery of ORUR.Contact With Space examines the new basic energetic facts brought into the open by the Oranur Experiment, which impact various branches of functional science such as biophysics, medicine, astrophysics, meteorology, and chemistry. Written under unrelenting attack from conspiratorial commercial interests, this book gives some of the background into the difficult social and physical milieu in which this research was done, and conveys the excitement of the adventures that began the cosmic or atomic age. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: Yoga, the Alpha and the Omega Osho, 1976 On an ancient treatise on the Hindu yoga system; lectures delivered in Bombay, December 1973-January 1974. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich, 1989-08 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 orgasm: Birth & Sex Sheila Kitzinger, 2012 Birth and sex are often talked about as if they were contrasting experiences. In fact, they each involve the same rush of hormones in an action drama in which mind and body work in harmony. When a woman is free to follow her instincts and give birth naturally, waves of endorphins surge in the bloodstream with the same energy as in ecstatic lovemaking. Birth and sex mingle to become one in the thrilling, sweet, intense and overwhelming experience of creation. Yet in the Western high-tech birth culture the environment often inhibits the spontaneity of birth, resulting in pain and distress. Pr. |
wilhelm reich orgasm: The Institute of Sexology Katherine Angel, John Bancroft, Shereen El-Feki, Cynthia A. Graham, Alyce Mahon, Christopher Turner, 2014 A candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts--sex--and those who have devoted their lives to studying it. Looking at key sexologists throughout history including Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and Alfred Kinsey, this book investigates how sex research has shaped our current attitudes toward sexual behavior and identity. From anthropological surveys and questionnaires to ancient sex toys and machines, The Institute of Sexology presents fascinating findings alongside a wide range of rare documents, artworks, photographs, and erotica from the past. Spanning several centuries, the book delves deeply into sexual practices and conventions from all over the world at different time periods. From raunchy ancient carvings to 1920s erotic postcards, The Institute of Sexology proves that kink has been around for longer than you think. The book's compilation of sexually progressive memorabilia opens a visually stimulating discussion on the topics of sexual freedom and fetishism. Through their documentation of courtship rituals from faraway lands and their historical government-sponsored sexual questionnaires, sexologists encourage us to take a critical look at our approach to sexual practices. Sexologists have hugely influenced our attitude toward this most basic of subjects, yet The Institute of Sexology reminds us that while contemporary reservations on sexuality are being loosened, there were times in the past when sex and sexual identity were explored much more openly. Preconceived ideas are thrown out the window in this richly illustrated book that suggests our understanding of sex is in constant evolution. The Institute of Sexology highlights the profound effect that the gathering and analysis of information can have in changing attitudes and lifting taboos. |
Wilhelm II - Wikipedia
Wilhelm II [a] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
Kaiser Wilhelm - Facts, WWI & Death - Biography
Apr 3, 2014 · Born in Germany in 1859, to Germany's Frederick III and Victoria, Queen Victoria of England's eldest daughter, Kaiser Wilhelm served as emperor of Germany from 1888 until the end of...
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Apr 14, 2010 · Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18).
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May 31, 2025 · William II (born January 27, 1859, Potsdam, near Berlin [Germany]—died June 4, 1941, Doorn, Netherlands) was the German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918, known for his frequently militaristic manner as well as for his vacillating policies.
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Wilhelm II [a] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked …
Kaiser Wilhelm - Facts, WWI & Death - Biography
Apr 3, 2014 · Born in Germany in 1859, to Germany's Frederick III and Victoria, Queen Victoria of England's eldest daughter, Kaiser Wilhelm served as emperor of Germany from 1888 until the …
Kaiser Wilhelm II - WWI, Abdication & Death - HISTORY
Apr 14, 2010 · Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18).
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941)
Discover facts about Kaiser Wilhem including why he was forced to abdicate and go into exile in 1918.
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May 31, 2025 · William II (born January 27, 1859, Potsdam, near Berlin [Germany]—died June 4, 1941, Doorn, Netherlands) was the German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to …
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruled from 1888 to 1918. His reign, which has become defined by unrestrained ambition, aggressive diplomacy, and global …
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