Adventures in the Orgasmatron (75 page)

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

NOTES

Introduction

1.
Nathan G. Hale,
Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 4.

2.
Leslie Fishbein,
Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of the Masses, 1911–1917
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1982), 88.

3.
Samuel Tannenbaum, “Sexual Abstinence and Nervousness,” in
Sexual Truths versus Sexual Lies, Misconceptions and Exaggerations
, ed. William J. Robinson (New York: Critic and Guide, 1919), 75–132.

4.
The Oneida Community, a utopian commune that flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, was founded in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, whose bible was the Kama Sutra. Noyes instituted a form of polygamy that he dubbed “complex marriage.” Members practiced what they called “male continence,” whereby men were forbidden from ejaculating during sexual intercourse; this would, of course, have been anathema to Reich. (Despite this practice, forty children were born to the community of about two hundred and fifty people over twenty years.) In America Reich treated Humphrey Noyes, Jr., the children’s therapist descended from the Oneida patriarch. See Taylor Stoehr,
Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994), 159.

5.
On Reich’s claim to have coined the term “sexual revolution,” see Wilhelm Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Noonday, 1968), 44. There do seem to be earlier instances of the term’s use, for example, in James Thurber and E. B. White’s
Is Sex Necessary?: or, Why You Feel the Way You Do
(New York: Harper and Bros., 1929), which includes a chapter titled “The Sexual Revolution.”

6.
Wilhelm Reich,
Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 37.

7.
Achieving “orgastic potency” was the end goal of orgone therapy: “Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibitions; the capacity to discharge completely the dammed-up sexual excitation through involuntary, pleasurable convulsions of the body.” See Wilhelm Reich,
The Function of the Orgasm
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 102.

8.
Richard Cook,
Alfred Kazin: A Biography
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 88.

9.
James Baldwin, “The New Lost Generation,”
Esquire
, July 1961, quoted in Steven J. Zipperstein,
Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 117.

10.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, Freud to Annie Angel, 42.

11.
Ilse Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1969), 36.

12.
A. S. Neill,
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Education
(London: Gollancz, 1962), 4.

13.
Beverley R. Placzek, ed.,
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936–1957
(London: Gollancz, 1982), 118.

14.
Jonathan Croall,
Neill of Summerhill: The Permanent Rebel
(New York: Pantheon, 1983), 260.

15.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 22.

16.
Ray Monk,
Bertrand Russell, 1921–1970: The Ghost of Madness
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2000), 95.

17.
Ibid., 95.

18.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 322, 202.

19.
Ibid., 256.

20.
Zoë Redhead, author interview, February 2004.

21.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 382.

22.
Paul Roazen and Swerdloff Bluma,
Heresy: Sandor Rado and the Psychoanalytic Movement
(Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1995), 84.

23.
Louis Menand, “Road Warrior: Arthur Koestler and His Century,”
The New Yorker
, December 21, 2009.

24.
“Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution,”
Time
, January 24, 1964, reprinted in
Sexual Revolution
, ed. Jeffrey Escoffier (New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2003).

25.
Ibid.

26.
Dagmar Herzog,
Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005).

27.
Ibid., 159.

28.
See Shulamith Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
(New York: Morrow, 1970); Germaine Greer,
The Female Eunuch
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971); and Juliet Mitchell,
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women
(New York: Pantheon, 1974).

29.
Eli Zaretsky,
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
(New York: Knopf, 2004), 9.

One

1.
Wilhelm Reich,
Passion of Youth: An Autobiography, 1897–1922
, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988), 80.

2.
Wilhelm Reich,
The Function of the Orgasm
(New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1942), chapter 1.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Wilhelm Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Noonday, 1968), 39–40.

5.
Martin Grotjahn,
My Favorite Patient: The Memoirs of a Psychoanalyst
(Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1987), 32, 148.

6.
Lore Reich Rubin, author interview, October 2004.

7.
Ernest Jones,
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
(New York: Basic Books, 1957), 1:232.

8.
Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung,
The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung
, ed. William McGuire, trans. Ralph Manheim and R. F. C. Hull (London: Hogarth Press and Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977), 300.

9.
Sigmund Freud,
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
, ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth, 1971), 2:271.

10.
Ibid., 270.

11.
Ibid., 19:49.

12.
Brenda Maddox,
Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones
(London: John Murray, 2006), 52.

13.
Ernest Jones,
Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1990), 159.

14.
Ibid., 159.

15.
Jones,
Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
, 3:412

16.
Jones,
Free Associations
, 159.

17.
Ibid., 160.

18.
Jones,
Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
, 3:390.

19.
Reich,
Reich Speaks of Freud
, 36.

20.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 62

21.
Ibid., 64.

22.
Ibid., 65.

23.
Ibid., 67.

24.
Peter Gay,
Freud: A Life for Our Time
(New York: Norton, 1988), 377.

25.
Maddox,
Freud’s Wizard
, 146.

26.
Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi,
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi
, ed. Eva Brabant, Ernst Falzeder, and Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap, 1996), 311.

27.
Maddox,
Freud’s Wizard
, 154.

28.
Jones,
Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
, 3:17.

29.
Untitled 46-page document. Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.