Adventures in the Orgasmatron (77 page)

21.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 47.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Wilhelm Reich,
Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 28.

24.
In a 1922 essay, “Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation,” Reich claims to have cured a twenty-eight-year-old waiter of impotence by analyzing the unconventional method by which he attempted auto-affection; if this is the same patient, the claim of a cure was obviously premature. See Reich,
Early Writings
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 125–32.

25.
Wilhelm Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Noonday, 1968), 70.

26.
Ibid., 67.

27.
Reich,
Selected Writings
, 29.

28.
Danto,
Freud’s Free Clinics
, 92.

29.
Sigmund Freud, “Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1919),
Standard Edition
, 17:163.

30.
Nathan G. Hale,
The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 44.

31.
Myron Sharaf,
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), 68.

32.
Hale,
Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States
, 45.

33.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 159.

34.
Ibid., 130.

35.
Rachel Maines,
The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 3.

36.
Ibid., 35.

37.
Jonathan Margolis,
O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm
(New York: Grove Press, 2004), 298.

38.
Ibid., 298.

39.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 95.

40.
Ibid., 95.

41.
Ibid.

42.
Sigmund Freud, “Studies in Hysteria” (1895),
Standard Edition
, 2:137.

43.
Ibid., 1:184

44.
Sigmund Freud, “My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of Neuroses” (1906 [1905]),
Standard Edition
, 7: 274.

45.
Deirdre Bair,
Jung: A Biography
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2003), 136.

46.
Jacoby,
Repression of Psychoanalysis
, 42.

47.
Brenda Maddox,
Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones
(London: John Murray, 2006), 54.

48.
Sigmund Freud,
Collected Papers
, 2:92.

49.
Freud, “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety” (1926),
Standard Edition
, 20:92.

50.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 85.

51.
Ibid., 98.

52.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 15.

53.
Martin Shepard,
Fritz: An Intimate Portrait of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), 38.

54.
Hermann Nunberg and Ernst Federn,
Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society: 1906–1908
(New York: International Universities Press, 1975), 42.

55.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 202.

56.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 96.

57.
Wilhelm Reich,
Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis
, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980), 77.

58.
Sándor Ferenczi,
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
(Albany: Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1938), 38.

59.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 24.

60.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 209–10.

61.
Ibid., 214.

62.
Sterba,
Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst
, 87.

63.
Wilhelm Reich,
Character Analysis
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), 169.

64.
Untitled 46-page document, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

65.
Wilhelm Reich,
People in Trouble
, volume 2 of
The Emotional Plague of Mankind
, trans. Philip Schmitz (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 107.

66.
Roazen,
Helene Deutsch
, 219.

67.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 149.

68.
Wilhelm Reich,
Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind
, volume 2 (Rangeley, Me.: Orgone Institute Press, 1953), 5.

69.
Deutsch,
Confrontations with Myself
, 157–58.

70.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 253.

71.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 83.

72.
Deutsch,
Confrontations with Myself
, 157.

73.
Franz Alexander, Samuel Eisenstein, and Martin Grotjahn, eds.,
Psychoanalytic Pioneers
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1995), 432.

74.
Sterba,
Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst
, 34.

75.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 202. Richard Sterba, in “Character and Resistance,”
Psychoanalytic Quarterly
20 (1951): 72–76, wrote that Anna Freud’s
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
, “although it does away with much of Wilhelm Reich’s
Character Analysis
, could hardly have been produced without the latter.”

76.
Eli Zaretsky,
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
(New York: Knopf, 2004), 173.

77.
Peter Gay,
Freud: A Life for Our Time
(New York: Norton, 1988), 472.

78.
Ibid.

79.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 66.

80.
Reich,
Character Analysis
, 50.

81.
Ibid., 45.

82.
Ola Raknes,
Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy
(Princeton, N.J.: American College of Orgonomy, 2004), 55.

83.
O. Spurgeon English, “Some Recollections of a Psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Reich: September 1929–April 1932,”
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
5, no. 2 (1977): 241.

84.
Ibid.

85.
Ibid.

86.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 109.

87.
Reich,
Character Analysis
, 148.

88.
Sterba,
Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst
, 87.

89.
Richard Sterba, “Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Character Resistance,”
Psychoanalytic Quarterly
22 (1977): 1–20.

90.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 100.

91.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 166.

92.
Freud to Andreas-Salomé, May 9, 1928, in Ernst Pfeiffer, ed.,
Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé: Letters
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972), 174.

93.
Ibid., 173.

94.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 149.

95.
Ibid., 151.

96.
Ibid., 153–54.

97.
Ibid., 59.

98.
Ibid., 9.

99.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 85.

100.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 15.

101.
Reich,
Genitality
, 8.

102.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 40.

103.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 75.

104.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 34.

105.
Reich,
People in Trouble
, 26.

106.
Ibid., 33.

107.
David S. Luft,
Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003), 151.

108.
Reich,
People in Trouble
, 25.

109.
Ibid., 33.

110.
Ibid., 35.

111.
Luft,
Eros and Inwardness in Vienna
, 4.

112.
Jones,
Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
, 3:136

113.
Martin Freud,
Glory Reflected: Sigmund Freud—Man and Father
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 194

114.
Zaretsky,
Secrets of the Soul
, 221.

115.
Freud,
The Future of an Illusion
(1927),
Standard Edition
, 21:7.

116.
Zaretsky,
Secrets of the Soul
, 219.

117.
Edward L. Bernays,
Propaganda
, with an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller (Brooklyn: Ig, 2005), 38.

118.
Ann Douglas,
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), 144.

119.
Larry Tye,
The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations
(New York: Crown, 1998), 111.

120.
Elias Canetti,
The Conscience of Words
, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), 205–6.

121.
Zaretsky,
Secrets of the Soul
, 221.

122.
Ibid., 221.

123.
Ibid.

124.
Reich,
People in Trouble
, 25.

125.
Riccardo Steiner,
It Is a New Kind of Diaspora: Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis
(London: Karnac Books, 2000).

126.
Ilse Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1969), 14.

127.
W. R. Huggard and W. G. Lockett,
Davos as Health-Resort: A Handbook Containing Contributions by A. F. Bill, M.D.; A. Brecke [and Others] and Introduction by W. R. Huggard
(Davos: Davos Printing Company, 1907), 239.

128.
Reich,
Genitality
, 10.

129.
Helga Ferdmann, “Switzerland and Tuberculosis,” in
Switzerland Unwrapped: Exposing the Myths
, ed. Mitya New (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), 151.