Wilhelm Reich
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"Wilhelm Reich" was an Austrian psychoanalysis/psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933) and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933).For one of the most radical figures in psychiatry, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907256-1,00.html Sheppard 1973].

Danto 2007, p. [http://books.google.com/books?id=lq8rwc61ae4C&pg=PA43 43]: "Wilhelm Reich, the second generation psychoanalyst perhaps most often associated with political radicalism ..."

Turner 2011, p. 114: "[Reich's mobile clinic was] perhaps the most radical, politically engaged psychoanalytic enterprise to date."

For the publication and significance of The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Character Analysis, Sharaf 1994, pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ddlMl4jJgh0C&pg=PA163 163–164], 168.

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The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

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Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin.

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The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

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. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.

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