1945
BOOKS
45aWilhelm Reich: Character Analysis: Principles and Technique for Psychoanalysts in Practice and in Training, Second Edition, New York 1945, XXII + 328 pp. (33a, translated by Theodore P. Wolfe.)
T.P.W.: Translator's Preface to Second Edition, New York, January 1945
W.R.: Preface to First Edition, Berlin, January 1933
W.R.: Preface to Second Edition, New York, January 1945, pp. XV-XXII
PART ONE: TECHNIQUE
I. Problems of Analytical Technique, pp. 3-9
II. The Economic Viewpoint in the Theory of Analytic Therapy, pp. 10-19
III. On the Technique of Interpretation and of Resistance Analysis. The Regulated Development of the Transference Neurosis, pp. 20-38
IV. On Character Analysis, pp. 39-113
V. Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis, pp. 114-118
VI. On Handling the Transference, pp. 119-140
PART TWO: THEORY OF CHARACTER FORMATION
VII. The Characterological Mastery of the Oedipus Complex, pp. 143-157
VIII. The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character: The Sex-Economic Function of the Character Armor, pp. 158-179
IX. Character Formation and the Phobias of Childhood, pp. 180-188
X. Some Circumscribed Character Forms, pp. 189-207
XI. The Masochistic Character. A Sexual-Economic Refutation of the Death Instinct and of the Repetition-Compulsion, pp. 208-247
XII. Notes on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World, pp. 248-252
Appendix: Psychic Contact and Vegetative Streamings (35d), pp. 261-324
45bWilhelm Reich: The Sexual Revolution. Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure, 3rd Edition, New York: Orgone Institute Press, (July) 1945, XXVII + 273 pp. (36a, translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Cf. 49s.)
Preface to Third Edition, November 1944
THE FIASCO OF SEXUAL MORALISM
1. The Clinical Basis of Sex-Economic Criticism, pp. 3-29
2. The Failure of Sex-reform, pp. 30-33
3. The Introduction of Compulsive Marriage as the Basis of Contradictions in Sexual Life, pp. 34-39
4. The Influence of Bourgeois Sexual Morality on Sex-research and Sex-reform, pp. 40-70
5. The Compulsive Family as Educational Apparatus, pp. 71-79
6. The Problem of Puberty, pp. 80-115
7. Marriage and Permanent Sexual Relationships, pp. 116-149
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE "NEW LIFE" IN THE SOVIET UNION
Sexual Reaction in Russia, pp. 153-156
8. The "Abolition of the Family," pp. 157-163
9. The Sexual Revolution, pp. 164-179
10. The Inhibition of the Sexual Revolution, pp. 180-195
11. Liberation of Birth Control and Homosexuality and Subsequent Inhibition, pp. 196-211
12. The Inhibition in the Youth Communes, pp. 212-234
13. Some Problems of Infantile Sexuality, pp. 235-259
14. The Lessons of the Soviet Struggle for a "New Life," pp. 260-269
A.S. Neill: Hearts not Heads in the School, London: Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., 1945
ORGONOMIC PERIODICALS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEX-ECONOMY AND ORGONE-RESEARCH (Official Organ of the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SEX-ECONOMY AND ORGONE-RESEARCH), Vol. IV(1) (April 1945), Director: Wilhelm Reich, M.D., Editor: Theodore P. Wolfe, M.D.
45cWilhelm Reich, M.D.: "Anorgonia in the Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy. A Contribution to the Problem of Cancer Prevention" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 1-33 (From the Orgone and Cancer Research Laboratory. Concluded October 1944. Translated from the manuscript by the Editor. Sent in pamphlet form to various institutions and individuals. In: The Cancer Biopathy.)
Falling anxiety as the expression of plasmatic immobility
Falling anxiety in an infant of 3 weeks (i.e. Peter Reich)
45dWilhelm Reich, M.D.: "Some Mechanisms of the Emotional Plague" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 34-53 (From an unpublished German manuscript (1940-1942). Translated by T.P. Wolfe. With translator's note. In: Character Analysis.)
(Introduction)
The Differences between the genital character, the neurotic character, and emotional plague reactions
a. in thinking
b. in acting
c. in sexuality
d. in work
Rational, character-neurotic, and emotional plague reaction
A.S. Neill: "Co-education and Sex" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 54-58 (Written in 1944.)
Felicia Saxe: "A Case History" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 59-71
Alexander Lowen: "Adolescence: A Problem in Sex-Economy" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, 72-95 (Much of the material presented in this article was discussed in the Seminar in Sex-economy led by Dr. Theodore P. Wolfe.)
(Introduction)
The Problem of Masturbation
Adolescent Sex Life and the Parents
45eN.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "Outline of the Present Activities of the Orgone Institute" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 96-99 (From the Orgone Institute.)
I. Research
II. Teaching
III. Organisation
N.N.: "'Cold Facts'" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, p. 100 (Note.)
N.N.: "Sexuality before the Law" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 100-103 (Note.)
1. "Custody of Children"
2. "Statutory Rape"
45fN.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "'Free Love'" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, p. 104 (Note.)
Gladys Meyer: "Gunnar Myrdal: An American Dilemma. The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 105-114 (Review.)
The study itself
The sexual character of the core of the problem
The nature of fascism
The road to fascism
The effects of fascism
The outlook
A.S. Neill: "That Dreadful School" IJSO IV(1), April 1945, pp. 115-128 (Excerpts.)
Self-government
Being on the Side of the Child
The Private Lessons
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEX-ECONOMY AND ORGONE-RESEARCH (Official Organ of the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SEX-ECONOMY AND ORGONE-RESEARCH), Vol. IV(2,3) (November 1945), Director: Wilhelm Reich, M.D., Editor: Theodore P. Wolfe, M.D.
45gWilhelm Reich: "Orgone Biophysics, Mechanistic Science and 'Atomic' Energy" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 129-132 (Manuscript June 1945.)
45hWilhelm Reich: "Experimental Demonstration of the Physical Orgone Energy: Preliminary Communication" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 133-146 (From the Orgone Institute Research Laboratories. Orgonon, Maine, U.S.A., June, 1945. Translated by T.P. Wolfe. In: The Cancer Biopathy.)
I. Organisation of plasmatic matter from free orgone energy
II. The process of the bion water experiment XX
A. The fluorophotometric demonstration of the orgone in earth bion water
B. The organisation of bionuos and plasmatic matter from the orgone energy in the bion water
C. Observations and the tests concerning the biological nature of the orgone flake
III. Demonstration of orgonotic pulsation in the realm of the non-living
A. The oscillations of a pendulum in in the pulsating orgone energy field of a metal sphere
B. The pulsation of the atmospheric orgone
IV. Demonstration of orgonotic lumination at the orgone energy field meter
V. Demonstration of orgonotic attraction in the energy field of the orgone accumulator
VI. General conclusions concerning orgone energy which is not bound to formed matter
45iWilhelm Reich, M.D.: "The Developement of the Authoritarian State Apparatus from Rational Social Interrelationships" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 147-155 (Translated by T.P. Wolfe. Partly written in 1934. Preprint from the forthcoming 46a.)
The Social Function of State Capitalism
Elena Calas: "Studying 'The Children's Place'" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 156-172 (Denison's nursery school. Excerpt from report for the Master's Degree at the New York School of Social Work.)
Lucille Bellamy Denison: "The Child and His Struggle" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 173-190 (First part about The Children's Place, second part about a healthy child and its problems.)
(Introduction)
Destructive Impulses
Observe the Parent
Self-regulated Breast Feeding
Free Choice for the Child
Nap Time
Training for Cleanliness
Masturbation
Healthy Children Suffer
Nakedness
Freedom of Movement
"People Laugh Funny"
"Silly People get Everything"
"She'll Spunk me over her Choke"
Nightmare
Note (about the closing of The Children's Place)
Gladys Meyer: "The Making of Fascists" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 191-199 (Experiences in social work taken from unpublished student projects at the New York School of Social Work.)
Walter Hoppe, M.D.: "My First Experiences with the Orgone Accumulator" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 200-201
45jN.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "Is the Orgone Atomic Energy?" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 202-203 (Note.)
N.N.: "Orgonotic Contact. Letter from a Reader" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 203-204 (Note. Regarding 45c.)
N.N. (T.P. Wolfe): "'A New Disease'" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 204-206 (Note.)
N.N. (T.P. Wolfe): "A Note on 'Family Cohesion'" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 206-208 (Note.)
N.N. (T.P. Wolfe): "Some Practical Problems of Adolescent Sex Relationships" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 208-210 (Note.)
45gN.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "A Note from the History of Science" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 210-212 (Note. On Eve Curie: Madame Curie. A Biographie, New York 1937.)
45lN.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "The Position of Sex-Economy, A Clarification" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 212-213 (Note. Relationship with Psychoanalysis and Marxism.)
N.N.: "A.S. Neill and Sex-Economy. A Correction" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, p. 213 (Note. Cf. 45f.)
N.N. (Wilhelm Reich): "From the Orgone Institute" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, p. 214 (Note. With two photos of the Laboratory at Orgonon.)
N.N. (T.P. Wolfe): "From the Orgone Institute Press" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, p. 215 (Note. New Address. Announcing 46a.)
Harry Obermayer: "James Burnham: The Machiavellians" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 216-220 (Review.)
Harry Obermayer: "Zvi Sohar and Shmuel Gollan: Die sexuelle Erziehung" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, p. 220 (Review. Cf. 45b.)
Sex education.
Gladys Meyer: "Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 221-224 (Review. American sex-reformer.)
Gladys Meyer: "Arnold Gesell, et al.: Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 224-227 (Review.)
A.S. Neill: "That Dreadful School" IJSO IV(2,3), November 1945, pp. 228-251 (Excerpts.)
The Private Lessons (Continued)
A Day in Summerhill
The Sex Question
Manners
The Wear and Tear of Freedom
The Psychology of Approval
What the Public wants to know about Summerhill (Questions and Answers)
Dr. Walter Hoppe: "Die Entdeckung der 'Bione' und 'Orgone'" Jedioth Chadaschoth, Palestine, Friday, 26. Jan. 1945
The discovery of the "bions" and the "orgones" (sic!).
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
N.N.: Marriage Contract between Ilse Ollendorf and Dr. Wilhelm Reich, April 4, 1945 (In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999, pp. 271f.)
ADDRESSES
Wilhelm Reich: address before the scientific workers of the Orgone Institute, April 14, 1945 (In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999, pp. 275f.)
POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
45mWilhelm Reich: Die Bio-Elektrische Untersuchung von Sexualität und Angst. With footnotes of 1945. In: The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety, New York 1982 (Translated by Marion Faber, with Derek and Inge Jordan.)
Preface, 1945
I. The orgasm as an electro-physiological discharge (34c)
1. Some peculiar features of sexuality
2. The orgasm formula: mechanical tension >> bio-electrical charge >> bio-electrical discharge >> mechanical relaxation
II. Sexuality and Anxiety (35c)
1. Starting point and fundamental ideas
2. Sexual excitation and anxiety affect
a. The problem of anxiety
b. Sexuality and anxiety as opposite excitations of the vegetative life apparatus
c. The Misch choline experiment
d. The two basic forms of psychic functions: "Toward the world" - "Away from the world"
3. Tendency to assume spherical form
4. The vegetative primary form of the sexuality-anxiety antithesis
a. The flow of fluids and psychic "tendency" in the organism
5. Kraus's "fluid theory of life"
6. Potassium and calcium ions and the vegetative function
7. The antithesis of center and periphery
III. The bio-electrical function of sexuality and anxiety (37a)
1. Basic summary of the clinical approach
2. Observations on the oscillograph
a. The biological resting potential
b. The resting potential of the sexually excitable zones
c. Wandering of the potential
d. Tickling and pressure phenomena
e. Tickling near the electrode
3. Anxiety and unpleasure
4. More evidence of the basic antithesis of vegetative life
a. The sugar-salt experiment
b. The form of the excitation
c. The disappointment reaction
5. Prerequisites for the pleasure reaction
6. Electrical excitation in kissing
a. Inadequacies of direct measurement
b. The technique of indirect measurement
7. Results and control experiments
a. Errors due to poor insulation
b. Can the phenomena we have described be due to extraneous effects occuring at the electrodes?
c. Can the concentration of the electrolyte be a source of error?
d. Can the pressure, tickling, and stroking phenomena which we have described be obtained in inorganic matter?
8. The "vegetative center"
9. Some theoretical conclusions
45nWilhelm Reich: "On Using the Atomic Bomb" Orgonomic Functionalism Vol. 2, Fall 1990, pp. 44-49 (German, written August 10, 1945. Cf. 45g, 45j, and 48c.)
Wilhelm Reich: note from the Archives of the Orgone Institute. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999, p. 27 footnote
Wilhelm Reich: note from the Archives of the Orgone Institute. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999, p. 268 footnote
DIARIES
1.1., 7.1., 8.1., 10.1., 21.1., 25.1., 26.1., 29.1., 4.2., 16.2., 21.2., 28.2., 14.3., 20.3., 21.3., 3.4., 5.4., 14.4., 21.4., 24.4., 3.5., 7.5., 8.5., 30.5., 4.-5.6., 20.6., 25.6., 1.7., 3.7., 6.7., July(2x), 13.7., 15.7., 2.8., 5.8., 7.8., 2.9., 4.9., 15.9., 25.9., 29.9., 2.10., 13.10., 15.10., 6.11., 22.11., 27.11., 7.12., 15.12., 19.12., 21.12., 24.12. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
CORRESPONDENCE
Wilhelm Reich to The American Civil Liberties Union: 8.5. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Roger N. Baldwin: 16.5. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Brentano's Bookstore: 2.1. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Jane Darley Coates: 9.6. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Paul Goodman: 30.11. (not sent) In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to A.E. Hamilton: 9.1., 21.2., 11.8. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Herbert Harvey: 9.6., 22.7. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Arthur Garfield Hays: 16.4. (not sent) In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Nic Hoel (Waal): 22.6., 28.6. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Walter Hoppe: 2.4., 13.11. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Walter Hoppe: Spring, 10.7., Aug.-Sept. In: Hoppe: Wilhelm Reich und andere große Männer der Wissenschaft im Kampf mit dem Irrationalismus, München 1984, pp. 79f, 84, 182, 203
Wilhelm Reich to J.H. Leunbach: 10.4. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Helene Lindenberg: 12.5. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Elsa Lindenberg: 14.5. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Alexander Neill: 9.2., 2.4., 15.6., 2.7.(12.7.), 13.7., 10.9., 29.10., 24.11., 19.12. In: Placzek: Record of a Friendship, New York 1981
Wilhelm Reich to Tage Philipson: 16.11. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Lore Reich: 6.2. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to The St. John's College Bookstore: 1.10. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Mrs. Richard Stern: 25.5. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Theodore P. Wolfe: 10.6., 20.6. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Alexander Neill to Wilhelm Reich: 13.1., 14.3., 6.6., 25.6., 6.8., 22.8., 28.11., 27.12. In: Placzek: Record of a Friendship, New York 1981
1946
BOOKS
46aWilhelm Reich: The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Third, revised and enlarged edition, New York: Orgone Institute Press, (Spring) 1946, XXIV + 344 pp. (Chapters 1-8 revised version of 33b. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe.)
Preface to the Third Edition, August 1945
I. Ideology as Material Power, pp. 1-27
II. Authoritarian Familiy Ideology and the Mass Psychology of Fascism, pp. 28-62
III. The Race Theory, pp. 63-82
IV. The Symbolism of the Swastika, pp. 83-87
V. The Sex-economic Basis of the Authoritarian Familiy, pp. 88-96
VI. Organized Mysticism: The International Antisexual Organisation, pp. 97-121
VII. Sex-economy in the Fight against Mysticism (Includes 38d.), pp. 122-144
VIII. Some Problems of Sex-political Practice, pp. 145-174
IX. The Masses and the State (35b revised 1944. Includes 45i.)
1. What goes on in the masses of people?
2. The "socialist longing"
3. The "withering away of the state"
4. The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1919
5. "The introduction of Soviet democracy"
6. The developement of the authoritarian state apparatus from rational social interrelationships
7. The social function of state capitalism
8. The biosocial functions of work. The problem of "voluntary work discipline"
X. Work Democracy (Includes 43b, 43c, and 43d.)
1. Give responsibility to vitally necessary work!
2. The biological miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom
3. Work democracy versus politics. The natural social forces for the mastery of the emotional plague
ARTICLES
A.S. Neill: "Shaw and Education" In: S. Winsten (Ed.): G.B.S. 90. Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work, London: Hutchinson, 1946, pp. 140-151
MINUTES
INS Examination of Wilhelm Reich on May 3, 1946 by Harry Addelson, U.S. Naturalization Examiner. In: Jerome Greenfield: "Examination of Wilhelm Reich by the Immigration and Naturalization Service" The Journal of Orgonomy 16(2), November 1982, pp. 278-284
POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
46bWilhelm Reich: "Orgone Functions in Weather Formation" Orgonomic Functionalism Vol. 4, Summer 1992, pp. 41-51 (First version written in Summer 1943. Revised and expanded in Summer 1946.)
The Formation of the Gap in the Orgone Envelope of the Earth (1946)
46cWilhelm Reich: "Sympathisches Verstehen" In: Hoppe: Wilhelm Reich und andere grosse Männer der Wissenschaft im Kampf mit dem Irrationalismus, München 1984, pp. 513-520 (Manuscript 1946. In: Orgonomic Functionalism Vol. 1, Spring 1990, pp. 75-82.)
A Note on "Sympathetic Understanding."
DIARIES
4.1., 5.1., 6.1., 12.1., 25.1., 26.1., 14.2., 16.2., 20.2., 8.3., 3.4., 4.4., 5.4., 14.4., 19.4., 1.5., 7.5., 18.5., 19.5., 26.5., 28.5., 30.5., 8.6., 9.6., 17.6., 21.6., 1.7., 5.7., 21.7., 22.7., 23.7., 19.8., 29.8., 30.-31.8., 1.9., 11.9., 13.9., 14.11., 18.11., 19.11., 26.11., 27.11., 29.11., 1.12., 4.12., 7.12., 8.12., 10.12., 11.12, 12.12., 14.12., 20.12., 21.12., 23.12., 24.12., 25.12., 29.12., 30.12. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
CORRESPONDENCE
Wilhelm Reich to Melvin Avramy: 25.9. (not sent) In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Arnim Beregi: 14.8. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to V.D. Collins: 13.3. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Gertrud Greissle: 25.3. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to A.E. Hamilton: 3.7. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Nic Hoel (Waal): 8.4. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Walter Hoppe: 8.1., 6.9., 1.11. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to J.H. Leunbach: 27.11. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Aenne Morseth: 28.10. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Alexander Neill: 12.1., 21.1., 29.1., 4.2., 18.2., 8.5., end of June or early July, 17.7., 4.8., 4.9., 14.9., 14.10., 9.11., 16.12., 29.12. In: Placzek: Record of a Friendship, New York 1981
letter of 12. January severely mutilated by the editor, cf. counterpart in: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Reich to Ilse Ollendorff: 24.12. In: Ollendorff: Wilhelm Reich, München 1975, p. 205 (not included in the American original)
Wilhelm Reich to Ola Raknes: 13.3. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to The St. John's College Bookstore: 19.6. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Wilhelm Reich to Walter Straus: 24.10. In: Higgins: American Odyssey, New York 1999
Alexander Neill to Wilhelm Reich: 10.1., 26.1., 12.2., 30.4., 19.6., 2.7., 23.7., 28.8., 4.10., 18.10., 15.11., 20.12. In: Placzek: Record of a Friendship, New York 1981
