Adventures in the Orgasmatron (76 page)

30.
H. J. Greenwal, “Soup Kitchens Feed Viennese Rotten Cabbage, Sawdust Flour, and Horse Meat Doled Out,”
Poverty Bay Herald
, January 29, 1919.

31.
Stefan Zweig,
The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
(London: Hesperides, 2008), 14.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Stefan Zweig,
Mental Healers: Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud
(New York: Frederick Ungar, 1962), 267.

34.
Brian R. Banks,
Muse and Messiah: The Life, Imagination, and Legacy of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
(Ashby-de-la-Zouch, U.K.: InkerMen, 2006), 138.

35.
Helmut Gruber,
Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-class Culture, 1919–1934
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 16.

36.
Herman Sternberg, “On the History of the Jews in Czernowitz,” in
Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina
[History of the Jews in Bukovina], ed. Hugo Gold (Tel Aviv: Olamenu, 1962), 2:27–47.

37.
“Abstract of Origin of WR,” Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

38.
Zweig,
World of Yesterday
, 223.

39.
Martin Freud,
Glory Reflected: Sigmund Freud—Man and Father
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 188.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Elizabeth Ann Danto,
Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 26.

42.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 74.

43.
Ilse Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1969), 28.

44.
Myron Sharaf,
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), 51.

45.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 76.

46.
Ibid., 96.

47.
Ibid., 87.

48.
Ibid., 93.

49.
Ibid., 129.

50.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 60.

51.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 105.

52.
Ibid., 76.

53.
John Updike,
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
(New York: Knopf, 1989), 72.

54.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 76.

55.
Reich would later distance himself from “Weininger’s misogyny, his attitude towards the Jews, and many other conspicuous peculiarities of his work.” See Wilhelm Reich,
Early Writings
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 8.

56.
Chandak Sengoopta,
Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 64.

57.
Ibid., 221.

58.
Ibid., 51.

59.
Ibid., 139.

60.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 63.

61.
Ibid., 91.

62.
Ibid., 9.

63.
Ibid., 39.

64.
Ibid., 95–96.

65.
Ibid., 147.

66.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 49.

67.
Isidor Sadger,
Recollecting Freud
, ed. and with an introduction by Alan Dundes (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), xxiv.

68.
Ibid., xxxvii.

69.
Paul Roazen,
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst’s Life
(Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1985), 150.

70.
Alison Fleig Frank,
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), 48.

71.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 5.

72.
Ibid, 26.

73.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 23.

74.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 124.

75.
Ibid., 29.

76.
Ibid., 30.

77.
Ibid., 31.

78.
Ibid., 36.

79.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 65.

80.
Ibid., 68–69.

81.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 25.

82.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 32.

83.
Untitled 46-page document, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

84.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 90.

85.
Ibid., 45.

86.
Ibid., 42–43.

87.
Ibid., 42.

88.
Ibid., 46.

89.
Ibid., 43.

90.
Ibid., 46.

91.
Ibid., 50.

92.
Arie Schmelzer, “History of the Jews in the Bukowina (1914–1919),” in Gold,
Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina
, 1:67–74.

93.
The town was 40 percent Jewish before 1939. Only four hundred Jews remained in 1944; most of the others died in Belzec extermination camp. Schulz was shot dead in the streets by a Gestapo agent in 1942.

94.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 56.

95.
Eric Lohr, “The Russian Army and the Jews: Mass Deportation. Hostages, and Violence During World War I,”
The Russian Review
60, no. 3 (2001): 404–19.

96.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 58.

97.
Paul Roazen,
Freud and His Followers
(New York: Knopf, 1975), 504.

98.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 5.

99.
Allan Janik,
Wittgenstein’s Vienna Revisited
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2001), 75.

100.
Reich,
Early Writings
, 6.

101.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 39.

102.
Benjamin Harris and Adrian Brock, “Freudian Psychopolitics: The Rivalry of Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel, 1930–1935,”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
66, no. 4 (1992): 578–612.

103.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 136

104.
Ibid., 130.

105.
Ibid., 115.

106.
Ibid.

107.
Freud and Jung,
Freud-Jung Letters
, 235.

108.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 125.

109.
Ibid., 124.

110.
Bertha Maria Marenholtz-Bulow,
Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel
(Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1892), 142.

111.
Ibid., 125.

112.
Ibid., 126.

113.
Ibid., 125.

114.
A statistic quoted in Wilhelm Reich,
The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Regulating Character Structure
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), seems relevant here: “About 20,000 women per year died in Germany from abortions between 1920 and 1932, while 75,000 women per year became seriously ill from sepsis due to abortions” (30).

115.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 141.

116.
Lore Reich Rubin, author interview, October 2004.

117.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 145.

118.
Ibid., 153.

119.
Ibid., 156.

120.
Ibid.

121.
Ibid.

122.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 106.

123.
Reich,
Passion of Youth
, 176.

124.
Ibid., 176.

125.
Ibid., 178.

126.
Lia Laszky, interview by Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Archive, British Library, London.

127.
Ibid.

128.
Lou Andreas-Salomé,
The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé
(New York: Basic Books, 1964), 41.

129.
Ernst Federn,
Witnessing Psychoanalysis: From Vienna Back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
(London: Karnac, 1990).

130.
Ernst Federn, “The Relationship Between Sigmund Freud and Paul Federn: Some Unpublished Documents,”
Revue internationale d’histoire de la psychanalyse
2 (1989): 441–48.

131.
Ollendorff,
Wilhelm Reich
, 25.

Two

1.
Eve Blau,
The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919–1934
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), 27.

2.
Stefan Zwieg,
The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
(London: Hesperides, 2008), 223.

3.
Helmut Gruber,
Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919–1934
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 61.

4.
Ibid., 6.

5.
Elizabeth Ann Danto,
Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 17.

6.
Ibid., 17.

7.
Ibid., 3.

8.
Ibid., 161.

9.
Ibid., 130.

10.
Paul Roazen,
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst’s Life
(Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1985), 253.

11.
Helene Deutsch,
Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue
(New York: Norton, 1973), 110.

12.
Kurt R. Eissler,
Freud as an Expert Witness: The Discussion of War Neuroses Between Freud and Wagner-Jauregg
(New York: International Universities Press, 1986).

13.
Reich,
The Function of the Orgasm
(New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1942), 41.

14.
Ibid., 62.

15.
Richard F. Sterba,
Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985), 41.

16.
Reich,
Function of the Orgasm
, 74.

17.
Danto,
Freud’s Free Clinics
, 61.

18.
Deutsch,
Confrontations with Myself
, 84.

19.
Russell Jacoby,
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986), 66.

20.
Danto,
Freud’s Free Clinics
, 4.