Wilhelm Reich: Pervert or Martyred Genius?
December 14, 2018
With his perverted mind, Reich found sexual symbolism everywhere in his analysis of fascism. Freud's theory of the "Oedipal Complex" posits that all children want to have sex with their parents, and Reich wholeheartedly believed this (remember, he himself literally had an incestuous fixation with his mother).
According to Reich, the suppression of the so-called "mother fixation" found its ultimate outlet in the state, exemplified in things such as Goebbels' "10
Nationalist feeling," Reich wrote, "is based on the unconscious, deeply anchored mother fixation."13
Race theory, he further claimed, for reasons which fail to even resemble coherency, comes from a "mortal terror of natural sexuality and its orgasm function."14
After effectively being kicked out of Denmark, and then Sweden, by those governments refusing to extend his visas due to the blatantly subversive nature of his political and theoretical work, Reich settled in Norway in 1934.
In 1936 he published The Sexual Revolution, which in part excoriated the Soviet Union for pulling back on the radical sexual policies they had implemented after the Bolshevik Revolution, and in part laid out Reich's own ideas for sexual and social reform.
By this time he had been officially kicked out of both the Communist Party, and the International Psychoanalytic Association, and was under vicious assault by the Norwegian press and scientific community, who publicly denounced him as a "quack," "destructive for the spirit and morals of society," and the "slimiest kind of pornographer."16
Reich's insistence on the ridiculous notion of child sexuality was as present as ever in The Sexual Revolution.
"[I]n principle," he wrote, "unless we are charlatans or cowards, we must affirm the sexuality of adolescents, help them wherever we can, and do everything to prepare the final liberation of adolescent sexuality. This is a gigantic and responsible task."17
Children and adults should be naked in front of each other as much as possible, Reich argued. His reasoning was that first, covering up makes the child develop "guilt feelings," and second, nakedness being "taboo" leads to "lascivious curiosity."18
In regard to having children watch their parents have sex, Reich could find "no argument against it," except that it might disturb the adults' pleasure.
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Related - Spartacus --Detailed Biography of Reich
Reich as Cloud Buster (YouTube)
Reich Unique Private Recording
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Peter G said (December 14, 2018):
learly a genius he walked a crooked path.
Many years before I started reading this website of yours Henry, I studied the inventions of Wilhelm Reich to some considerable extent and it became evident that they had gone after this man not because of his idiosyncrasies or his unconventional leanings but because of the fact that he had demonstrated that his devices did in fact work.
When it comes to cancer this cannot be tolerated and he suffered the same fate which has now been bestowed upon David Noakes at Southwark Crown Court a couple of weeks ago.
When a man who had been found guilty of selling and producing the unlicensable cancer curative gcmaf was sent down for quite a low sentence of 2 years following a mitigation hearing which lasted over a week.
David having pleaded guilty already to helping Humanity by bringing forward this suppressed cure for cancer.
And so it is that people who challenge the Cancer Monopoly of the pharmaceutical industrial complex have their Liberty curtailed.
Let's hope that David Noakes doesn't suffer the same fate in prison that befell Wilhelm Reich.
Lets also rejoice in the fact that he appears, judging by the previous comments, to have found Salvation in Jesus before his end I do hope that this was a genuine declaration on his part.
Having read his story of his childhood I find it bewildering to consider how he was not even more perverted than he was surely he had the naughty nanny that Freddie Mercury speaks of in his song Fat Bottomed Girls.
Didnt do Freddie any good either.