The Discovery of the Orgone: The Function of the Orgasm, Sex-Economic Problems of Biological Energy by Reich Wilhelm; Translated By Theodore P. Wolfe

Author:Reich, Wilhelm; Translated By Theodore P. Wolfe [Reich, Wilhelm; Translated By Theodore P. Wolfe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B001NJTYFE
Goodreads: 129130681
Publisher: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2012-08-17T20:21:13+00:00

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THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM

AN ABORTIVE BIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

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prevailing conditions of education! To solve this far more to designate the orgastic resolution of tensions-they overinteresting riddle, it was necessary to draw upon the relacome the pathological tie to the family as well as the effects tionship between authoritarian family upbringing and sexual

?f the sexual misery of society. There is a category of people suppresswn.

111 society who, living and working in scattered parts of the Parents suppress the sexuality of small children and adoworld without any connection with one another, are enlescents, not knowing that they are doing so at the behest of dowed with natural sexuality. They represent what I have authoritarian, mechanized society. Their natural expression termed the genital character. They are very frequently

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blocked by forced asceticism and in part by the lack of fruitfound among the industrial workers.

ful activity, children develop a sticky attachment to the par

The mass plague of neuroses is produced in three main

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ents, markecfby helplessness and guilt feelings. This, in turn, stages of human life : in early childhood, through the atmosthwarts their liberation from the childhood situation, with phere of the neurotic home, in puberty, and finally in the all its

sexual anxieties and inhibitions. Children compulsive marriage in its strict moralistic conception.

brought up in this way become character-neurotic adults Strict and premature toilet training and insistence on who, in turn, pass.�n their neuroses to their own children.

"good behavior," absolute self-control, and good manners And so it goes from generation to generation. This is how have a damaging effect in the first stage. They make the child the conservative, life-fearing tradition is perpetuated. How, a�enable to the most important prohibition of the next pein spite of this, can people become and remain healthy ?

nod, the prohibition of masturbation. Other obstructions to The theory of the orgasm provided the answer : acciden

�he_ c�i.ld's development may vary, but these are typical. The tal or socially determined conditions occasionally enable the 111htbttron o f natural childhood sexuality in all layers of the

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attainment of genital gratification; this, in turn, eliminates population provides the most fertile soil for the fixation to

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the energy source of the neurosis and weakens the tie to the the neurotic home and its extension into the tie to one's childhood situation. Thus, in spite of the neurotic family sit

"ho�eland." This is ·the origin of man's lack of independuation, it is possible for some people to become and to reence 111 tho_ught and action. Psychic mobility and energy go

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main healthy. The sexual life o f the youth of 1 940 is fundawtth sexua� vi�a�i�y a�d are its precondition. On the

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mentally more free, but also more conflict-laden, than that of and, sexual mhtbttron ts the precondition of psychic the youth of 1 900. The healthy person as well as the sick 111htbttron and clumsiness.

person goes through family conflict and sexual repression. It In puberty, the damaging principle of education is reis a peculiar coinciding of circumstances, quite accidental in peated, leading to psychic stagnation and character armor

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this society, which makes it possible for an organism, with ing.

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