The function of the orgasm : sex-economic problems of biological energy / Wilhelm Reich, newly translated from the German by Vincent R. Carfagno.
By: Reich, Wilhelm.
Contributor(s): Carfagno, Vincent R.
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BookSeries: Discovery of the orgone ; v.1.Publisher: London : Souvenir, 1983Description: viii, 400 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0285649701 .Subject(s): Sex (Psychology)
| OrgasmDDC classification: 155.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 155.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00160673 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 155.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005530 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Over twenty years Wilhelm Reich, a psychologist and doctor of medicine, studied the relationship between the emotional, physiological and physical functions of biological energy. He saw the orgasm as the key to the body's energy metabolism, discovering that the biological emotions governing the psychic processes are themselves the immediate expression of strictly physical energy - which he named the cosmic orgone.Initially derided, Reich's theories are now seen as crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our fellow men. In appreciating why the orgasm brings a feeling of physical and emotional well-being, we can also gain insight into the physical and emotional ills that result from a thwarting of this bioenergetic function. Many researches into psychic energy believe that the aura recorded by Kirlian photography is nothing less than the manifestation of Reich's orgone energy.
Includes index.
Biology and sexology before Freud -- Peer Gynt -- Gaps in psychology and in the theory of sex -- The development of the orgasm theory -- The development of the character-analytic technique -- An abortive biological revolution -- Te breakthrough into the biological realm -- The orgasm reflex and the technique of character-analytic vegetotherapy -- From psychoanalysis to biogenesis.
Translation of: Die Function des Orgasmus.