Record of a Friendship

wanted nothing of it. Today they want all of it, but I shall not agree to
this usurpation of my own work. In this orgone biophysical work lowe
nothing to anybody; on the contrary, I had to overcome false idealistic
and mystical concepts in psychology and psychoanalysis and other
sciences in order to find the road to the blistering biological energy
which you can see in the dark.
Therefore, the issues which interest Philipson are far behind, decades
behind the present work. It is one of the most unfortunate habitudes of
human beings that they come along for a short while with pioneer work,
pick up a piece of it and then settle down, thus losing all perspective and
all possibilities to go along and understand the whole development.
Philipson would not do talky-talk with his patients like Jung and Stekel
if he could understand that I am not doing psychology but biology with
the patients and that working biophysically involves undressing of the
patient and seeing his body. I am fighting desperately against being
looked upon as a branch of psychoanalysis. I wish I had enough money
to stop doing psychiatry at all and devote myself fully to the investiga­
tion and elaboration of the cosmic orgone energy. Unfortunately, I dare
not lose my financial independence which is provided by my psychiatric
work. To discuss the implications of the discovery of the biological
energy for the evaluation of psychology would be one of the main tasks
of our meeting. So I hope you'll come.
Your coming here would also be of some importance because we
feel that the Socialists in Europe have spread wrong notions on the
educational mentality in the U.S. I find conservative Americans much
more open-minded and progressive in matters of living than the most
rabid European Socialist. There is no doubt that the niveau [level] of
education in the U.S. is in general and in average much higher than in
Europe; and it would be a matter of evening out wrong ideas if you
would see with your own eyes. You could bring it back to Europe. No
European understands, for instance, that Roosevelt has given the
workers in the U.S. much more than any Socialist government in Europe.
I even feel that most conservative Americans have a fairer attitude
toward labor than the "Father of all proletarians of the world." There
is something important in American liberalism which is inaccessible to
the average European.
I knew you would not accept the offer of the Hamilton School to be
their director, but the offer was seriously made.
I know you will enjoy the accumulator very much, but it must be
used regularly for a long stretch of time to show its effects.