Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
earlier figures but because he threatens the patient’s precarious peace, the patient comes to dislike the analyst. True, this pe ...
published until 1933 but already formulated as a result of his new approach, is worth quot- ing: “Not until a patient who had, i ...
ground and the “peasant” quality about him which so many of his colleagues commented on, sometimes with admiration, sometimes wi ...
approach rather than the virtues, which are always harder to achieve. More recent therapeu- tic approaches, such as the encounte ...
his criticisms of psychoanalysis he was around twenty-seven, while Federn, Hitschmann, and Nunberg were, respectively, fifty-thr ...
motive that was perhaps “infantile, but neither ambitious nor criminal.” Secondly, in 1924 Freud was still chairman of the Socie ...
I have gone in some detail into what might be regarded as minor backroom poli- tics in the psychoanalytic movement because it il ...
concepts before a small group of analysts at Freud’s home. Reich presented the central prob- lem of whether, in the presence of ...
7 : Reich’s Work on Orgastic Potency: 1922-1926 Reich’s contributions to the study of characterology were crucial to establishin ...
functioning as “normal.” True, there might still be various psychological conflicts disturbing the individual’s love relations. ...
He argued that allpatients were genitally disturbed: that is, they did not achieve full satisfaction in sexual intercourse. Reic ...
however, in the technical seminar Reich did not place great emphasis on the genital func- tioning of patients. By contrast, in h ...
was finished, there was an icy stillness in the room. After a pause, the discussion began. My assertion that the genital disturb ...
than a few cases before giving his conclusions. Ideally, however, one would like to have had much more specific definitions of w ...
rest of the later work was radically different^11. Because of its pivotal significance, I shall present Reich’s description of o ...
sided momentarily at the point of the acme; the urge to “penetrate completely” increases with each ejaculatory muscle contractio ...
sciousness, of involuntary contractions—sets it apart from the usual analytic concern with verbalization and cognitive mastery o ...
previous sexual affairs; it was also different from many of his subsequent relationships. For example, in his disguised case his ...
Reich was right, I believe, in his assertion that the best basis for solid, pleasurable work was a fulfilled love life. However, ...
concepts concerning orgastic potency? I have made clear my belief that Reich started from his own sexual experiences. He then we ...
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