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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.

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