that he would like to see her. However, by this time Ottilie had taken Annie’s and Alfred’s
side against him, and she still harbored bitter feelings about the treatment of his grandmoth-
er. Thirty years after, she commented ruefully: “I took myself too seriously,” wishing, in a
way, that she had responded to his friendly overture.
- Tel. Int. with Edith Buxbaum, Feb. 8, 1973.
- Freud, “ ‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modem Nervousness,”Collected Papers, II, 96-97.
11.RSF, 33.
- Ibid., 34.
- Freud,Civilization and Its Discontents(New York: W. W. Norton, 1961),
14.RSF, 56.
- Tel Int. with Richard Sterba, Oct. 25, 1971.
16.RSF, 51-52.
- Ibid., 52.
18.Ibid., 66.
19.This and the next letter from Freud were translated by Ernst Federn
20.RSF, 65-66.
21.Reich’s role in the party during this period was unearthed by the historian Anson G.
Rabinbach from Viennese newspapers and the archives of the Austrian Social Democratic
Party. I am summarizing his account, which appeared as a sidelight in his Ph.D. thesis on
“Ernst Fischer and the Left Opposition in Austrian Social Democracy,” University of
Wisconsin, 1974, 92ff.
22.PIT,85-86.
Chapter 13:The Sex-political Furor: 1930-1934, p.155- Karen Horney’s esteem for Reich as an analyst is well reflected in a story Fritz Perls has
related. After failing to get much help from two analysts, Perls turned to Homey for advice.
Her verdict:“The only analyst that I think could get through to you would be Wilhelm
Reich.” Perls subsequently went into treatment with Reich Perls,In and Out ofthe Garbage Pail
(New York: Bantam Books, 1969), 49.
2.PIT,Ch.VI.
- AC with WR, Fall 1948.
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