Reich, Wilhelm
1897-1957 60 years
1897-1957 60 years
Austrian physician, psychiatrist, writer...
parents were well-off, farm setting of childhood.
mother committed suicide when R. was 13
years, having an affair with Reich's tutor.
father died 4 years later.
Jewish
student of S. Freud, later broke away
came to US, 1939
married 2x, son, Peter.
originally was sympathetic to communism, later
was against it.
developed "orgone" theory of energy, made
"orgone boxes" for medical therapy.
sentenced to 2 years in prison for violating the
injuction against the sale and transportation of
his orgone boxes.
died in the Federal Penitentiary in
Pennsylvania, US. after serving 1 year -- one
day before his parole application to be
released.
wrote many books -- Character Analysis, The
Function of the Orgasm, Listen Little Man, The
Mass Psychology of Fascism, etc....
considered to be the father of modern
emotional release psychotherapy, primal
therapy, character-armor based therapies,
etc....
parents were well-off, farm setting of childhood.
mother committed suicide when R. was 13
years, having an affair with Reich's tutor.
father died 4 years later.
Jewish
student of S. Freud, later broke away
came to US, 1939
married 2x, son, Peter.
originally was sympathetic to communism, later
was against it.
developed "orgone" theory of energy, made
"orgone boxes" for medical therapy.
sentenced to 2 years in prison for violating the
injuction against the sale and transportation of
his orgone boxes.
died in the Federal Penitentiary in
Pennsylvania, US. after serving 1 year -- one
day before his parole application to be
released.
wrote many books -- Character Analysis, The
Function of the Orgasm, Listen Little Man, The
Mass Psychology of Fascism, etc....
considered to be the father of modern
emotional release psychotherapy, primal
therapy, character-armor based therapies,
etc....
| YouTube video of Reich, film clips--02:37 |
| ...And one of his disciples, Wilhelm Reich, went deeper into it, but he was caught by the American government because he could not prove very scientifically, that is very objectively, what he was saying. He died in jail as a madman, certified as mad. He was one of the greatest men ever born in the West. But again he was working blindfolded. He was not yet working as a yogi has to work. The scientific attitude was his undoing. Reich tried to make contact with this energy the yogis call prana, and he called it "orgone." "Orgone" is better than "libido" because "libido" gives a feeling as if all is sexual energy. "Orgone" is a better word, more inclusive, more comprehensive, bigger than "libido," and gives a possibility for the energy to move beyond sex or to touch higher realms of being which are not sexual. But he got into trouble because he felt it so much and he observed so much that he started to accumulate the prana energy, the orgone, in boxes. He made orgone boxes. Nothing is wrong in them; yogis have been working on that for centuries. That's why yogis try to live in almost boxlike caves, with only one small door... --Osho Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 8, ch. 9 |
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