Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reichwas an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis , The Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Sexual Revolution , Reich became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth24 March 1897
CountryAustria
contains history meaning muscular
Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin.
football average psychics
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.
freedom men order
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.
integrity thinking perception
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
life teacher children
You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.
emotional breathing patterns
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
life natural sadistic
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
frustration needs arbitrary
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
life spring should
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
order goal anxiety
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.
christian religious honesty
I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.
anxiety pleasure form
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.
body flow energy
Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
cripples fascism frenzy
Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.