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Title

Sex-pol Essays, 1929-1934 / Wilhelm Reich, edited by Lee Baxandall, introduction by Bertell Ollman.

Author

Reich, Wilhelm

Publication

New York : Verso Books, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Baxandall, Lee
• Bostock, Anna
• Ollman, Bertell

Description

xxviii, 378 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from medical school to join the early pioneers of Freudian psychoanalysis, and then to some of the most controversial work of this century--his development of the theory of the orgone--led him also, at one period of his life, to become a radical socialist. The renewed interest in Reich's Marxist writings, and particularly in his notions about sexual and political liberation, follows the radical critiques of Herbert Marcuse, Frantz Fanon and Paul Goodman, the political protest movements toward personal liberation in the present decade.

Subject

• Communism
• German essays
• Germany
• Morals
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis and culture
• Sexual Behavior
• Social classes

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis -- Foreword to the 1934 Edition -- 1).Introductory Note -- 2).The Materialist Discoveries of Psychoanalysis and Some Idealist Deviations -- 3).The Dialectic of the Psyche -- 4).The Sociological Position of Psychoanalysis -- 5).The Use of Psychoanalysis in Historical Research -- Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union -- The Imposition of Sexual Morality -- Foreword to the First Edition -- The Origin of Sexual Repression -- 1).The Sexual Economy in Matriarchal Society -- 2).Economic and Sexual Contradictions Among the Trobrianders -- 3).The Imposition of Antisexual Morality -- 4).Primitive Communism---Mother-Right Private Property---Father-Right -- 5).The Morgan-Engels Theory: Confirmation and Corrections -- 6).The Origin of Clan Division and of the Incest Taboo -- The Problem of Sexual Economy -- 1).Historical Summary: An Overview -- 2).The Gratification of Needs and Social Reality --
• Contents note continued: 3).Production and Reproduction of Sexual Morality -- Politicizing the Sexual Problem of Youth -- What is Class Consciousness? -- Preface -- 1).Two Kinds of Class Consciousness -- 2).Some Concrete Elements of Class Consciousness and Some Elements Inhibiting It -- 3).Bourgeois and Revolutionary Politics -- 4).How to Develop Class Consciousness with the Everyday Life of the Masses as a Starting Point -- Reforming the Labor Movement -- Points for Discussion -- Making Judgments about Political Events -- Methods of Proceeding -- The Party---We Are It.

ISBN

• 9781781680247
• 1781680248

OCLC

783162761

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library