![]() Reich's core idea was human sexual repression as the source of its individual & societal violence & self-destruction. 290-291) The famous, still-controversial treatise by Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), the renegade Austrian psychoanalyst & cult figure. ![]() I am not a sexual being, like the animal." Hence the overemphasis of the intellect, of "pure" logic over against the instinct, of culture against nature, of the mind against the body, of work against sexuality, of the state against the individual, of the Ubermensch against the Untermensch." (from Chapter X(2), pgs. No matter whether the Fascist puts it in terms of the racially pure "Ubermensch," the Communist in terms of proletarian class consciousness, the Christian in terms of the "spiritual-moral" nature of man, or the liberal in terms of the "higher human values." All these ideologies have one and the same basis: "I am not an animal I have invented the machines, not the animal. " "Away from the animal! Away from sexuality!" is the leitmotif of all human ideology. New York, NY: Orgone Institute Press, 1946. Reich, Wilhelm The Mass Psychology of Fascism ![]()
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