Adventures in the Orgasmatron (85 page)

46.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 302.

47.
Ibid., 150

48.
Press release, March 19, 1954, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

49.
Ibid., 154.

50.
Beverley R. Placzek,
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936–1957
(London: Gollancz, 1982), Reich to Neill, 379.

51.
Donald E. Keyhoe,
The Flying Saucers Are Real
(New York: Fawcett Publications, 1950), 179.

52.
Wilhelm Reich,
Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951–1956; Orop Desert Ea, 1954–1955
(New York: Core Pilot, 1957), 71.

53.
Carl Jung,
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959).

54.
Reich,
Contact with Space
, 2.

55.
Ibid., 4.

56.
Ibid., 199.

57.
Ibid., 180.

58.
Peter Reich, author interview, July 2005.

59.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 385.

60.
Peter Reich,
A Book of Dreams
rev. ed., (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), preface.

61.
Ibid.

62.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 417–18.

63.
Orson Bean,
Me and the Orgone
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971), xiii.

64.
Reich,
Book of Dreams
, 112.

65.
Reich,
Contact with Space
, 8.

66.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Reich to Neill, 378.

67.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 180.

68.
Affidavit by Thomas Ross, June 18, 1955, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

69.
Inspector’s report, July 13, 1955, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

70.
Ibid.

71.
Thomas Mangravite, author interview, April 2006.

72.
Morgan,
Reds
, 495–96.

73.
Ibid., 497.

74.
Anthony Heilbut,
Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 443.

75.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 396.

76.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 476.

77.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 184.

Twelve

1.
Daniel Horowitz,
The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2004), 50.

2.
Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones,
The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908–1939
, ed. R. Andrew Paskauskas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap, 1993), 383.

3.
Sigmund Freud to Marie Bonaparte, August 13, 1937,
Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873–1939
(London: Hogarth Press, 1961), 436–37.

4.
Edward L. Bernays,
Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965), 395.

5.
Ibid., 779.

6.
Franz Kreuzer,
A Tiger in the Tank: Ernest Dichter, an Austrian Advertising Guru
(Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne, 2007).

7.
Ernest Dichter, “Put the Libido Back into Advertising,”
Motivations
2 (July 1957): 13–14.

8.
Ernest Dichter,
Getting Motivated: The Secret Behind Individual Motivations by the Man Who Was Not Afraid to Ask Why
(New York: Pergamon, 1979), 147–48.

9.
Ibid.

10.
“Science: Psychoanalysis in Advertising,”
Time
, March 25, 1940.

11.
Ernest Dichter,
The Strategy of Desire
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2002), xxi.

12.
Ibid., 169.

13.
Ibid., 263.

14.
Ibid., 20.

15.
Herbert Marcuse,
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
(London: Routledge, 1998), 4.

16.
Paul A. Robinson,
The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
(New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 147.

17.
H. Stuart Hughes,
The Sea Change: The Migration of Social Thought, 1930–1965
. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977), 175.

18.
Marcuse,
Eros and Civilization
, 239.

19.
Ibid., 49.

20.
David Allyn,
Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered History
(New York: Routledge, 2001), 203.

21.
Robinson,
Freudian Left
, 239.

22.
Letter to Grethe Hoff, April 20, 1955, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine. According to Myron Sharaf, “running” was one of Reich’s favorite words—“one ‘ran’ from the depths, from strong feelings, from truth.” See Myron Sharaf,
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), 31.

23.
Wilhelm Reich,
Character Analysis
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), 448.

24.
Ilse Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1969), 163.

25.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 441.

26.
Wilhelm Reich, “Orgone Therapy: Critical Issues in the Therapeutic Process,” tape recordings of lectures, summer 1949, Wilhelm Reich Museum, Rangeley, Me.

27.
Elsworth Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 14),
Journal of Orgonomy
17, no. 1 (1983): 43.

28.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 440–41.

29.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 14), 44.

30.
Ibid., 45.

31.
Jerome Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
(New York: Norton, 1974), 202.

32.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 462.

33.
Franklin Wright, “Plot Is Lousy, Cast Is Great,”
Portland Evening Express
, May 5, 1956.

34.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.,
205.

35.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 448.

36.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.,
209–10.

37.
Ibid., 210.

38.
Myron Sharaf, “The Trial of Wilhelm Reich,” in
Wilhelm Reich Memorial Volume
, ed. Paul Ritter (Nottingham, U.K.: Ritter Press, 1958), 69.

39.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 178.

40.
Wilhelm Reich,
Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951–1956; Orop Desert Ea, 1954–1955
(New York: Core Pilot, 1957), 1.

41.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 179–80.

42.
Myron Sharaf, “The Sentencing of WR, Silvert, and the WRF,” May 27, 1956, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

43.
Ibid.

44.
Ibid.

45.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 224–25.

46.
Ibid., 226.

47.
Letter from Mildred Brady to John Cain, May 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

48.
Peter Reich,
A Book of Dreams
(New York: Harper and Row, 1973), 53.

49.
Ibid., 57.

50.
Inspector’s report, June 7, 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

51.
Ibid.

52.
Ibid.

53.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, address at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953, “The President Speaks,”
Library Journal
78 (July 1953): 1206.

54.
Inspector’s report, August 23, 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

55.
1956 diary, Wilhelm Reich Papers, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

56.
Ibid.

57.
Courtney Baker, author interview, March 2005.

58.
Reich to Hoover, February 14, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

59.
Reich to Hoover, February 16, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

60.
February 25, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

61.
February 18, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

62.
Reich to Eisenhower, February 23, 1957, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

63.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 262–63.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 471.

66.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 195.

67.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.,
264.

68.
Wilhelm Reich’s Prison File, Steamshovel Press no. 6, St. Louis, Mo.

69.
Tony Hiss,
The View from Alger’s Window: A Son’s Memoir
(New York: Knopf, 1999), 31.

70.
Ibid., 65.

71.
“Tail-Gunner Joe Meets Cockyboo the Clown,”
Flatland Magazine
, November 12, 1995, 36–40.

72.
Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen,
Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era
(Urbana: University of Illinois, 2004), 96.

73.
Harvey Matusow, “The Death of Wilhelm Reich,” chapter 14 of his unpublished autobiography, “The Stringless Yo Yo,” Harvey Matusow Archive, University of Sussex (U.K.) Library Special Collections.

74.
Ibid.

75.
“My Unlawful Imprisonment,” Wilhelm Reich’s prison file.

76.
Cohen and Lichtman,
Deadly Farce
, 153.

77.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 196.

78.
Matusow, “Stringless Yo Yo.”

79.
Wilhelm Reich’s prison file.

80.
Time
, November 18, 1957.

81.
Charles Oller, “At Reich’s Funeral,” November 6, 1957, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.