Wilhelm Reich Quotes


Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.


Citations

Reich, Wilhelm. The Function of the Orgasm. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973, p. 131.

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Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich
  • Born: March 24, 1897
  • Died: November 3, 1957
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Psychologist

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936), Reich became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.