went into the world. There is a funny kind of quiet around it. It is as if
the people who avoided the main issue up to now are stunned that it is
possible to dare to present the core of the plasmatic function and of
sexuality.
When you read my book I ask you very much to write me about what
you think is lacking in it. I myself think that the problem of adolescence
has not been dealt with extensively enough; but having written a special
book on youth, somehow I did not feel it necessary to present it ex
tensively again. Or was it that I am growing older?
It was so good to hear that you are in good health. I have heard that
Constance is in troubles, but I hope she stands them well. Why don't
you take her as a member of your staff for some special work? I think
she ought to be helped along in order not to be alone.Summerhill School
Festiniog, North Wales
My dear Reich,- • •
July 4th, 1942Thanks for the signed copy of your book. I had to neglect my
work to read it through at almost one sitting, and it struck me as being
true all the time and all the way. It all seems so obvious, and it seems
so clear to me that yours is the only post-Freud psychology to be con
sidered. Thence, when this morning I get a letter from Rickman, Editor
of the British Journal 0/ Medical Psychology, thanking me for sending
him a copy of the journal, I feel disturbed and angry when he writes:
"It seems to me very poor stuff, and to take a narrow view of psychiatric
problems, but it is young and may broaden out. But although I wish he
would not talk in such old-fashioned sex jargon, he must express him
self in the best way he can." The only other reply I have had was from
Flugel. " ... am finding R. most interesting reading. He is certainly an
amazing fellow with an astonishingly wide outlook and a most useful
power of synthesis. Orgone excites my curiosity a good deal. Walter
Frank's article on Veg. Therapy I found particularly useful and it put
me au fait with a lot of things, though I think he ought to give some
credit to Cannon who in his book said substantially the same things but
some ten years earlier." ... I am sending out the mags. rather slowly
because so many journals have been blitzed and have new addresses