joanna bujes wrote:
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> [clip] Reich does not argue that
> religion is ONLY mischannelled sexuality. [clip]
There is no such thing as "channels" of energy of any kind, sexuality or otherwise, in the human organism. This is one of the fundamental errors of all psychological theories stemming from Freud. They assume the human person is a bunch of pipes with an undifferentiated fluid flowing through them which may be expressed in a variety of ways. This belongs with the physics of the four elements.
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> One of his central arguments was that if you can control someone's
> sexuality (by whatever means) you can basically control that person:
> through a reaction formation, the human energy that is dammed up
Again, a poetic image of the human body as a municipal water system. There is no possible way to make sense of the phrase, "human energy that is damned up." No damns. No energy that can be channeled.
Carrol