Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:16:10 -0500
From: Andrew Sorcik <bn837@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Technophiles vs. insight therapy
To: orgonomy <orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

   I've been lurking for the last several months and I thought it was time 
to come forward and raise a few (possibly obvious) points and to ask a 
few questions.  First, is there a book that deals with Reich's interaction
with other Freudian renegades such as Rank, Jung and Adler and have there 
since been any attempts at a grand synthesis between Reichian theories 
and those of his fellow ex-Freudians?  Tying in character armour with 
Rankian birth trauma seems, to my psychoanalytically untrained mind at least,
to be the most obvious and promising avenue. Schools have a sad tendency 
to splinter into finer and finer rival camps, ad absurdum; it would be 
refreshing to see an attempt at a rapprochement of Reichian ideas with 
either mainline psychoanalysis or with other mavericks.
   Also, I know that Reich made an effort to win Einstein's support for 
the orgone-theory.  The accounts I've read simply mention that after a 
few demonstrations, a non-commital Einstein offered some suggestions 
about tightening up the experimental design  and then lost interest.  Is 
there more to the story?  Does anyone know if among Einstein's private 
papers there is a record of this encounter with Reich?  
   Finally, there seems to be a dichotomy, if not a rift, between those 
Reichians who are primarily interested in orgonomy's therapeutic value
(massage therapists, etc.) and those who find the technological aspects
such as weather control and accumulators more enticing.  The Reich of 
*Character  Analysis* seems to stress the need for insight and he shows an
intuitive understanding of humans even while he's system-building.  Lately,
there seems to be such a stress on the mechano-physical applications of 
orgone that the more humanistic aspects such as the empathy and creativity
that follows de-armouring is rarely examined or discussed and, indeed , 
seems in danger of being entirely eclipsed.  If I'm wrong -- and I hope I 
am-- would someone be good enough to point out any books that stress 
these "softer" issues of orgonomy?  I already know of the Tottons' 
approachable little primer --any others?  
                                      
                                      Thanks,                               
                                             Andrew. 



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