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"Unlimited devotion to a cause is the best prerequisite for intellectual independence" (Wilhelm Reich). Scarce First Edition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete but for, possibly, a single missing endpaper, and sturdy; a bit rubbed of extremities, bumping to, scuffing of head and tail, but clean, if lightly toned, of interior. Bound in publisher's original mustard cloth, titles in black to cover and spine, protected in thin, stiff Mylar, folded and taped inside flaps front and rear. Still quite tightly bound, hand-stitched text-block. The front cover registers that this volume is No. VI in the series Neue Arbeiten zur arztlichen Psychoanalyse, Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Sigm. Freud. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The author, Wilhelm Reich, was famous for many things but especially for claiming to have discovered a palpable, quantifiable sexual energy, which he called the "Orgone." This leftist, sexually progressive activist and who possessed heterodox scientific theories in many ways, was forced into exile to the U.S. in 1939, at war's cusp. He eventually founded Orgonon, a commune/laboratory located in Rangely, Maine, and devoted much of the rest of his life to researching what he called the Orgone, which he claimed was virtually a panacea, a cure-all for ills as "small" as impotence in a man and "frigidity" in a woman and as "large" as repressive religious regimes and full-blown fascism. Terribly persecuted by the United States government, Reich was a young, earnest man who lived his life with unwavering conviction in his beliefs, beginning just post-W.W.I. and after launching into politics. In its familiar English form the title translates as The Function of The Orgasm For the Psychopathology and Sociology of The Sex Life, but this is not the 1942 publication with the same opening title in English. From the Bibliotheques of Jean-Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat, two mega-dealers of erotica in France and in multiple languages. Reich dedicated this book to his early mentor and inspiration, Dr. Sigmund Freud, even sending him a copy of the manuscript before it was published. Reich theorized and published and spoke for decades about the result of literally dammed-up sexual tensions, in lonely men and in entire cultures. Wilhelm Reich (1897 - 1957), psychiatrist, psychoanalytic, sexual scholar and sociologist, was one of the primary founders of the body-psychotherapy as well as the founder of the science of orgonomy, which attempted to uncover degrees of marital sexual unhappiness as they tracked along lines of unhappiness and anxiety. Lack of orgasms, he wrote, led to neural problems and anxiousness. A seminal discovery indeed. [5], 6 [1], 8-206 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 355315
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