[lbo-talk] Reich on sex & religion

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Dec 30 11:09:16 PST 2004


No energy that can be chanelled in various ways? Really?

So what do you think is fuelling your depression?

Joanna

Carrol Cox wrote:


>joanna bujes wrote:
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>>[clip] Reich does not argue that
>>religion is ONLY mischannelled sexuality. [clip]
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>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
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>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.
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>Carrol
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