[lbo-talk] Socialism, asceticism, prudishness...

[Michael Pugliese]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 04:14:34 -0400 (EDT), <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> ...that one of the freest sexual researchers
> in modern times was Wilhelm Reich, a socialist and a psychiatrist. (Yeah, 
> yeah I
> know he died a fruitcake, but his work on neurotic armoring has become an
> indissoluble piece of analytic and body work therapies for good reason.)
>
> Joanna

   Reich as I'm sure you know was not only thrown out of the KPD
but the official psychoanalytic org. Lingua Franca had a great piece on 
Reich in '99. http://rawilson.com/hell.html (Robert Anton Wilson)

   The wonderful Yugoslav movie from the late 60's, "Mysteries of the 
Organism:WR, " if memory serves has documentary footage of Reich. (And JVS 
at the opera!)

   The editor of Reich's, "Sex-Pol, " essays for a Random House/Vintage 
anthology in the early 70's, Lee Baxandall, has for yrs. now been the 
editor of a nudist journal. Which publishes sexier pix than Diane Arbus' 
sad ones of nudists.
-- 
Michael Pugliese