
But the psychoanalytic community was made uncomfortable by this claim, and it was said - by the time of Reich's death in an American prison on dubious charges brought by the federal government - that Reich had squandered his prodigal genius and surrendered to his own paranoia and psychosis, an opinion still responsible for the neglect and misconception of Reich's contribution to psychology. In The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Reich first took the now classic position that social behavior has its every root in sexual behavior and repression. A native of Vienna, he became a disciple of Freud but by his late twenties, having already written his classic The Function of the Orgasm, he fled the Third Reich and departed, too, from Freudian psychoanalysis. Reich was seventeen years old at the outbreak of World War I and had already witnessed the suicides of his mother and father. Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reich's life and work since Reich's death in 1957.

Listen, Little Man!Ī stirring reappraisal of the brilliant, maligned psychoanalytic thinker Robert S. Purchasers of the digital version receive the appropriate Illuminations automatically as part of the ebook edition.
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The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada’s work from being translated.

This is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis.
