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Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

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by Turner, Christopher


  Rockefeller Foundation

  Roheim, Geza

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel

  Rosenfeld, Isaac

  Ross, Helen

  Ross, Tom

  Roszak, Theodore

  Roth, Philip

  Roth, Sam

  Rubenfeld, Ilana

  Rubenstein, Arnold

  Ruben-Wolf, Martha

  Rubin, Jerry

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russell, Kate

  Russian Revolution; see also October Revolution

  S. A. Collins & Sons

  Sachs, Hanns

  Sachs, Wulf

  Sachter, Dr.

  Sadger, Isidor

  sadism

  Salinger, J. D.

  Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris)

  Salt of the Earth (film)

  Salter, Patricia

  Salvation Army

  Sanger, Margaret

  “sand packet (SAPA) bions,”

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Schiele, Egon

  Schilder, Paul

  schizophrenia; eugenics and; hysteria and; paranoid; psychoanalytic treatment of; Reich diagnosed with

  Schjelderup, Harald

  Schlamm, Willy

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

  Schmidt, Alik

  Schmidt, Vera

  Schnitzler, Arthur

  Schober, Johann

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Schultz, Johannes

  Schulz, Bruno

  Schur, Max

  Science (journal)

  Scott, Jody

  Seipel, Ignaz

  Senate, U.S.

  Settlement House (Vienna)

  Sex and Character (Weininger)

  Sex and Repression in Savage Society (Malinowski)

  sex-economy

  Sex—Love—Marriage (Schultz)

  sexology

  Sex-Pol

  Sexpol Verlag

  sexual abuse

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey)

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey)

  Sexual Freedom League

  Sexual Lives of Savages in Northwestern Melanesia, The (Malinowski)

  “Sexual Maturity, Abstinence, Marital Morality” (Reich)

  sexual repression; child-raising without; as cornerstone of class submission; fascism and; inroads by youth movement against; as intrinsic to civilizing process; Kinsey on; Mann’s literary exploration of; Marcuse on; in Miller’s view of America; neuroses caused by; orgone accumulator as cure for; overthrow of; societal norms responsible for; Stalinist

  Sexual Revolution, The (Reich)

  Sexual Struggle of Youth, The (Reich)

  Shadow War Against Hitler, The (Mauch)

  Shakespeare, William

  Shapiro, Elliot

  Sharaf, Myron; biography of Reich by; Macdonald denounces Brady as Communist to; on Oranur experiments; and Reich’s daughters; on Reich’s trial; on Silvert

  Shaw, George Bernard

  shell shock

  Shepard, Martin

  Sheppard, Miriam (Paki Wright’s mother)

  Siersted, Ellen

  Sigmund Freud Archives

  Silberer, Ernst

  Silberer, Herbert

  “Silent Observer, The” (Reich)

  Silvert, Michael; arrest of; conservative politics of; imprisonment of; Mangravite and; sexual abuse of child patients by

  Simkin, Jim

  Simmel, Ernst

  Sinclair, Upton

  Singer, Richard

  Sleeper (film)

  Smith, Margaret Chase

  Smith Act (1940)

  Social Affairs Ministry, Danish

  Social Democrats; Austrian; Danish; German

  Social Hygiene, Bureau of

  Social Hygiene vs. the Sexual Plagues (pamphlet)

  Socialists

  Socialist Society for Sex Counseling and Sex Research

  Society of Heart Specialists, Viennese

  Society of Physicians, Viennese

  Sontag, Susan

  Sorbonne

  Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe)

  Souza, Monica

  Spengler, Alexander

  Spirit and Structure of German Fascism (Brady)

  Spock, Benjamin

  Spotnitz, Hyman

  Sputnik 1

  Stalin, Joseph; death of; enmity toward Trotsky of; five-year plans of; Hitler’s pact with; Kollontai’s sex reforms reversed by; psychoanalysis denounced by; views on homosexuality of; at Yalta

  Stalin, Vasily

  Stalinism

  Standard Oil

  Stanford University

  Star Wars (film)

  State Department, U.S.

  Staub, Hermann

  Steig, Susanna

  Steig, William

  Steinhof State Lunatic Asylum (Vienna)

  Stekel, Wilhelm

  Stellato, Alfred

  Stengel, Erwin

  Sterba, Richard

  Stern, Victor

  Sternberg, Josef von

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Strachey, James

  Straight, Michael

  Straight, William

  Strategy of Desire, The (Dichter)

  Strauss, Leo

  Street of Crocodiles, The (Schulz)

  Strømme, Johannes Irgens

  Student Laboratory (Rangeley, Maine)

  student uprisings of 1968

  Studies on Hysteria (Freud and Breuer)

  Summerhill

  Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childhood (Neill)

  Summer of Love (1967)

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Supreme Judicial Court

  Sussex University

  Swales, Peter

  Swarowski, Hans

  Sweeney, George C.

  Sword and the Shield, The (Andrew)

  syphilis

  Szilard, Leo

  Taft-Hartley Act (1947)

  Tanberg, Bodil

  Tandler, Julius

  Tannenbaum, Samuel A.

  Tausk, Victor

  Technology of Orgasm, The (Maines)

  Teil, Roger du

  Teller, Edward

  Templeton, Clista

  Templeton, Herman

  Tesla, Nikola

  Thalasa (Ferenczi)

  “Therapeutic Significance of Genital Libido, The” (Reich)

  Thomas, Dylan

  Thompson, Clara

  Thompson, Philip

  Thorburn, William

  Thousand and One Nights, A

  Thurber, James

  Tiffany, Charles

  Time magazine

  Tjøtta, Thorstein

  Toepfer, Karl

  Tolson, Clyde

  Toronto, University of

  Tractacus logico-philosophicus (Wittgenstein)

  Tracy, Spencer

  transference; negative; positive; in Reich’s relationship with Annie

  Trilling, Lionel

  Triumph of the Therapeutic, The (Rieff)

  Trojan Horse in America, The (Dies)

  Tropic of Cancer (Miller)

  Tropic of Capricorn (Miller)

  Tropp, Simeon

  Trotsky, Leon

  Trotsky, Zina

  Trotskyism

  Truman, Harry S.

  Tubbs, Oscar

  tuberculosis

  Tynan, Kenneth

  UFOs

  Ujhely, Grete

  Uncensored (magazine)

  unconscious; and consumer behavior; in hysteria; in impulsive characters; resistance and; Weininger on

  Unconscious, The (Freud)

  Union Theological Seminary

  United Nations

  Unity Committee for Proletarian Sex Reform

  University Hospital (Vienna)

  Updike, John

  Utica (New York) State Ment
al Hospital

  Vadim, Roger

  Van Dusen, Henry Pitney

  Van Gogh, Vincent

  Van de Velde, Theodoor H.

  vegetotherapy; children subjected to; Ginsberg and; Neill and; Perls’s critique of; technique of

  Verlag für Sexualpolitik

  Versailles Treaty

  Vicissitudes of Instincts, The (Freud)

  Victorianism

  Vienna, University of; Clinic for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases

  Vienna Anatomical Institute

  Vienna City Council

  Vienna Psychoanalytic Society; Ambulatorium and; Federn’s leadership role in; Reich accepted into; Training Institute of; women in

  Vietnam War

  View magazine

  Village Voice, The

  Völkischer Beobachter (newspaper)

  Vollmer, Joan

  Volta, Alessandro

  Vossische Zeitung

  W. B. Saunders Company

  Waal, Nic

  Wagner, Otto

  Wagner-Jauregg, Julius

  Wakefield, Dan

  Wallace, Henry

  Wall Street crash (1929)

  Wandervögel youth movement

  Warte, Die (journal)

  War of the Worlds (film)

  Washington Confidential (magazine)

  Washington Post

  Wassermann syphilis tests

  Watts, Alan

  Wednesday Society

  Weil, Ruby

  Weininger, Otto

  Weir-Mitchell, Silas

  Welch, Joseph

  Wells, Herman

  Wertham, Fredric

  Western Worker (periodical)

  Wharton, Charles

  When Your Child Asks Questions (Reich)

  White, E. B.

  White Collar (Mills)

  “White Negro, The” (Mailer)

  Whitney, Dorothy

  Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography (Ollendorff)

  Wilhelm Reich Foundation

  Wilhelm Reich Museum (Rangeley, Maine)

  Wilhelm Reich vs. USA (Greenfield)

  Williams, Tennessee

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Winter General Veterans Administration Hospital (Kansas)

  Wisconsin, University of

  Wisconsin State Journal, The

  Wise, Robert

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  Wolberg, Lewis

  Wolfe, Pussy

  Wolfe, Theodore

  Wolff, Charlotte

  Woman Rebel, The (magazine)

  Wood, Charles

  Woolf, Virginia

  Workers’ Opposition

  Workers’ School (New York)

  Workers’ University

  World League for Sexual Reform

  World of Yesterday, The (Zweig)

  World Radiation Center (Davos)

  World’s Fair (New York, 1939)

  World War I

  World War II

  Wortis, Joseph

  WR: Mysteries of the Organism (film)

  Wreszin, Michael

  Wright, Paki

  Wylie, Lee

  Wyvell, Lois

  Yalta Conference

  Yeats, W. B.

  Yippies

  Young Republicans League

  Zaretsky, Eli

  Zen

  Zetkin, Clara

  “Zetland: By a Character Witness” (Bellow)

  Zilboorg, Gregory

  Zipperstein, Steven

  Zweig, Stefan

  The second generation of psychoanalysts found themselves at the forefront of the avant-garde. (Top row) Wilhelm Reich, Otto Fenichel, Jenny Walder; (middle row) Grete Bibring-Lehner, Eduard Bibring; (bottom row) Edith Buxbaum, Claire Fenichel, and Annie Pink, 1927. (The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Archives)

  Members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium, a radical attempt to make psychoanalysis free and accessible to the masses, 1922. Wilhelm Reich is seated at the center, next to the older Eduard Hitschmann; on Reich’s left are Grete Bibring-Lehner, Richard Sterba, and Annie Pink. (The Freud Museum Photo Library)

  Anna and Sigmund Freud at the Gare de l’Est in Paris, June 1938, on their way to London, where Sigmund Freud lived in exile during the last year of his life. (The Freud Museum Photo Library)

  Women dancing in a circle at Territory Adolf Koch, Koch’s socialist body culture school on Lake Motzen just outside Berlin. Koch’s “Alliance of People’s Health” had 300,000 members in 1932. (Mel Gordon Collection)

  Annie Reich (née Pink), Wilhelm Reich’s former patient and first wife, and the mother of two of his children, with Eduard Bibring at a fancy dress party, 1926. (The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Archives)

  Mildred Edith Brady, a former model and the journalist who made Reich infamous in America as the leader of “the new cult of sex and anarchy,” 1930s. (Joan Brady)

  Annie, Wilhelm, and Eva Reich, with Edith and Richard Sterba (far right), in the late 1920s. Sterba described Reich as a “genital narcissist.” (The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Archives)

  Erwin Stengel, Grete Bibring-Lehner, Rudolph Lowenstein, and Wilhelm Reich at the 1934 Lucerne Psychoanalytic Congress, during which Reich was expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association. (The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Archives)

  A Food and Drug Administration official holding the funnel of an “orgone shooter,” used for directing orgone rays at localized wounds and infections, and modeling an orgone blanket and hat intended for bedbound patients, 1956. (Food and Drug Administration Archive)

  An image from Reich’s booklet The Orgone Energy Accumulator, Its Scientific and Medical Use (Orgone Institute Press, 1951). Eva Reich is shown sitting in the orgone box, a device that Reich hoped might dissolve sexual repression and cancerous tumors. This image was used as evidence in the FDA’s 1954 complaint for injunction.

  William S. Burroughs’s orgone energy accumulator, stored in the garden of his home in Lawrence, Kansas. He claimed to have had a “spontaneous orgasm” in the box. (Lee Ranaldo)

  Paul Goodman, writer and sexual libertarian, running a Gestalt group therapy session, c. 1960. (Sam Holmes)

  Harvey Matusow, the paid FBI informer who alleged that Communists were using sexual liberation to prey on youth. He later recanted and helped bring down McCarthy. Photos taken in December 1954. (The Harvey Matusow Archive, University of Sussex)

 

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