(^9) [ 19 36 -1 939 ]
sex at all. The chief difference is a more positive attitude to life and
people. I still get bad headaches. Nearly always beginning on a Friday,
Gott weiss warum Freitag [God knows why Friday].
Tell me, can I do any harm if I make the bedwetters, boys of 8 and 9,
lie down and breathe? I can't think that there is any danger in it, and
they are both as stiff as Hell in the Bauch [stomach], I am sure that
the Orgasmus Reflex would be the cure.
I have just reread with pleasure and profit your Sexualitiit im
Kulturkamp/. But the Bione book is so difficult for me, not knowing
any science.
I'll come over in July if Europe isn't by that time a hell. It might be
wise to take the whole school to Norway, but since Norway is a part
of British Capitalism, I suppose she will be brought into any war. The
general opinion here is that war will come very soon.
My regards to Elsa.
. ,.
Oslo, Norway
March 24, 1938
Dear N eill!*
I can write to you today only very briefly. The situation is
mad, and it is quite impossible to foresee the outcome.
In answer to your question whether it can do any harm to release the
orgasm reflext in children with stiff stomachs, it is hard for me to say
anything certain, because I have no experience with children. By all
means, try, but please be very cautious. Don't force anything; one can
easily bring about serious vegetative reactions. Also, it is not easy to
do such work without involving the natural reactions such as defiance
etc. which then set in.
I shall probably not be here in July. If you wish to work with me
again, I would advise you to take Mayor June or, if that is not possible,
September.. ,.
- Translated from the original German.
t Reich described this as "a series of involuntary total body contractions,"
fundamental to the full "discharge of biophysical energy" in the orgasm, and
possible only where no muscular rigidities are present. Neill often abbreviates the
term to "0. reflex."