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In August 1934, without warning or explanation, Wilhelm Reich was expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association. Political expediency and the organization's growing adherence to Freud's death instinct theory had prevailed over Reich's scientific efforts to understand the functioning of what Freud had termed "libido". The provocative originality of Reich's work in the years to follow would inevitably distance him from Freudian psyc...

A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time."I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these words, Wilhelm Reich described his experience as an "enemy alien" imprisoned on Ellis Island in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.American Odyssey, compiled from his correspondence and jo...

Where's the Truth? is the fourth and final volume of Wilhelm Reich's autobiographical writings, drawn from his diaries, letters, and laboratory notebooks. These writings reveal the details of the outrider scientist's life-his joys and sorrows, his hopes and insecurities-and chronicle his experiments with what he called "orgone energy."A student of Freud's and a prominent research physician in the early psychoanalytic movement, Reich immigrated...

The diaries and reminiscences of one of the most revolutionary figures in psychoanalysis, ranging from his early development and sexual experiences to his medical studies and his encounter with Freud.

1933 erschien Reichs Massenpsychologie des Faschismus zum erstenmal. Das Buch kam zu spät, um noch viele Leser zu erreichen: es wurde zur Lektüre der Emigranten und blieb notwendig folgenlos. Inzwischen läßt sich eine Kritik des Faschismus (nicht nur des deutschen, sondern der faschistischen Struktur überhaupt) ohne Reich nicht mehr denken. Reichs klinisch und soziologisch geschulter Blick durchschaute des fundamentalen Zusammenhang zwischen a...