Wilhelm Reich

Listen, little man!

Early Writings, Vol. 1

En 1945 W. Reich firmó con Paidós el contrato cediendo los derechos para la edición castellana de este libro. En 1955 estaba publicado, presentando a Reich por primera vez en nuestro idioma. Ya por entonces la obra de este psicoanalista disidente era motivo de controversia acompañada por el entusiasta aplauso de algunos y el decidido rechazo de los más. Las ediciones siguientes encontraron una situación muy diferente a la que lo rodeó en las dos oportunidades anteriores: el autor, muerto (1957), ha sido revalorizado por un vasto público en todo el mundo y su obra está suscitando un pujante y creciente interés.

La función del orgasmo

Reich Speaks of Freud

The latest of Reich's writings to appear posthumously. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Autobiography, 1897-1922

Passion of Youth

Selected Writings of Wilhelm Reich

A collection of the letters and journals of the brilliant and misunderstood psychologist Wilhelm Reich documents his work from 1934 to 1939, revealing the development of revolutionary ideas regarding libido and human energy.

Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

Beyond Psychology

In the Theory and Thearpy of Neurosis (Genitality in the Theory & Therapy of Neurosis)

Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis

Escuta, Zé ninguém!

This volume marks the beginning of the publication in English of Reich's early writings. Volume One and the collections to follow will trace his scientific development from the psycho-analytical study of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, presented for membership in the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society (1920), to the crucial discovery of the bion (1938), which initiated his work in orgone biophysics and led to the discovery of cosmic orgone energy. In a foreword to this volume, Chester M. Raphael writes: "Viewing [Reich's] work retrospectively, it is easy to see the logic of its development from psychoanalysis to sex-economy and, finally, to orgone biophysics. Its continuity is so apparent that any tendency to fragment it or to ignore the relatedness of all his findings indicates a failure to comprehend its essence--the energy principal which unites all aspects of his work...Reich's early writings...are an integral part of the development that led to the discovery of orgone energy."

Early Writings

A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time. "I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these words, Wilhelm Reich described his experience as an "enemy alien" imprisoned on Ellis Island in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. American Odyssey, compiled from his correspondence and journals, chronicles Reich's first years in America. They were years of prodigious accomplishment in which he developed the orgone energy accumulator-the so-called orgone box; published his first books in English; made breakthroughs in his investigation of orgone energy in social pathology, physics, astronomy, and cancer; and interested none other than Albert Einstein in testing his theories. America brought a new marriage, a new son, a new group of students, and a new laboratory. But these were years of fierce struggle as well: the denial of an American medical license, the refusal of a patent on the orgone accumulator, and, finally, a slanderous article that would incite the Food and Drug Administration to the dogged attack on Reich that would continue until his death in another prison cell ten years later. American Odyssey reveals more than a period in the life of an embattled scientist. It discloses the social and intellectual life of a country in a tumultuous time in history.

Letters & Journals, 1940-1947

American Odyssey

In August 1934, Wilhelm Reich was suddenly expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association. The result was the extraordinary widening of his scientific interests, scrupulously documented in these journals and letters. They record his pioneering laboratory experiments to verify the reality of the pleasure function and his discovery of a previously unsuspected form of energy that exists in all living matter.

Chris Wraight

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