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Wilhelm Reich Archive (Bibliography : Booklist and Articles PART 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ) of
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Reich, Wilhelm EARLY WRITINGS, VOLUME ONE New York: Farrar, 1975. The twelve papers in this publication date from 1920 to 1925, and are principally concerned with human sexuality. The titles are: Libidinal Conflicts and Delusions in Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt;' A Case of Pubertal Breaching of the Incest Taboo; Coition and the Sexes; Drive and Libido Concepts from Forel to Jung; Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation; Two Narcissistic Types; Concerning the Energy of Drives; On Genitality: From the Standpoint of Psychoanalytic Prognosis and Therapy; Psychogenic Tic as a Masturbation Equivilent; Further Remarks on the Therapeutic Significance of Genital Libido; A Hysterical Psychosis in Statu Nascendi; and The Impulsive Character: A Psychoanalytic Study of Ego Pathology. 332 pages; plus xvii pages Foreword (by Mary Boyd Higgens), and Contents.
Reich, Wilhelm Die charakterologische Überwindung des Ödipuskomplexes Schwarze Presse. Vortrag auf der deutschen psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft, Dresden, Sept. 1930 & SIGMUND FREUD: Der Untergang des Ödipuskomplexes (erschienen 1924 in der "Internationalen Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse",
Reich, Wilhelm. CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology. With a Preface by William Steig. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. First printing. Gathering of Reich's writings on children (1926-1952), Reich demonstrates the impact of the environment on infant and child development from the perspective of his knowledge of biological energy functions.
Sex-Pol; Essays, 1929-1934.
by Reich, Wilhelm. Random House, New York (1972) ISBN: 0394479211
This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period. Along with many German intellectuals and some of his psychoanalysis colleagues, Reich moved to the left in the late 1920's and wrote for a number of radical publications, from which much of the material in this book is taken. Included in this volume are: Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union, The Imposition of Sexual Morality, Politicizing the Sexual Problems of Youth, What Is Class Consciousness? , Reforming The Labor Movement: Points for Discussion. Includes bibliographical references. pp. 378. xxviii, 378 p. 22 cm.
Reich, Wilhelm, Selected Writings - An Introduction to Orgonomy NY Farar, Straus, & Giroux 1973. The book that began the Reich revival.The classic introduction to thought and art of one of the century's most innovative, and controversial figures.
Reich, Wilhelm; The Impulsive Character and Other Writings. translated by Barbara G Koopman. New York: Meridian / New American Library 1974. (Translation of Der Triebhafte Charakter)
Reich, Wilhelm. PASSION OF YOUTH: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Farrar, Straus, Giroux NY 1988. Psychoanalyst recounts his growing up in 1920s-1930s Germany. 178 pp.
Reich, Wilhelm; Higgins, Mary B. (editor) Beyond Psychology : Letters & Journals, 1934-1939 New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1994. cl w/dj. First American Edition. Letters and journals 1934-1939. A document of his scientific interests following his expulsion from the International Psychoanalytic Assoc.
Reich, Wilhelm, AMERICAN ODYSSEY: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947 New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 453 pages. A collection of letters and journals spanning eight years). Compiled from his correspondence and his personal and work journals, chronicles Reich's first years in America. Edited by Mary Boyd Higgins and translated from the German by Philip Schmitz, Derek and Inge Jordan.

Wilhelm Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud. Edited by Mary Higgins & Chester M. Raphael. Pelican, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1975. "Reich discusses frankly his professional and personal relationship with Freud..."
Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Pelican, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1975. 11x18. 430pp. Reprint of the Translated Manuscript of the Revised and Enlarged 1946 Third Edition of Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus of 1933. "Reich firmly repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or of any ethnic or political group.... He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of the average human being whose primary biological needs and impulses have been suppressed for thousands of years. "
Reich Wilhelm, The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality Pelican, 1975. Reich attempts to explain historically the problem of sexual disturbances and neuroses. '..Reich sets out to analyse and explain, from the historical viewpoint, the problem of mass human neurosis. He argues in this book that the root of mass neurosis lies in sexual repression, which in turn lies in patriachal society. But he goes on to argue..'. Translation of: Einbruch Der Sexualmoral: Zur Geschichte Der Sexuellen Ökonomie
Reich, Wilhelm, Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis. Edited by Mary Higgins & Chester M. Raphael. Early Writings [of Wilhelm Reich] Volume 2. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1980]. 1st Edition in English. [xii]+225+[3]pp. Blue cloth. Translation of the 1927 _Funktion des Orgasmus_ with Reich's revisions from 1937-1945. The editors changed the title to differentiate the text from the 1942 _Function of the Orgasm_, which has a completely different text.
Massenpsychologie Des Faschismus. Zur Sexualokonomie Der Politischen Reaktion Und Zur Proletarischen Sexualpolitik
by Reich, Wilhelm
Verlag fur Sexualpolitik, Kopenhagen/ Prag/ Zurich (1933) (raubdruck)
Reich's examination of the roots of fascism in the character structure man under authoritarian political organization. One of Reich's most fruitful speculative works. The first edition, published during Reich's short stay in Denmark, following his flight from Nazi Germany. [ "...'The Mass Psychology of Fascism' was thought out during the German crisis years, 1930-33. It was written in 1933; the first edition appeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April 1934, in Denmark...Copies of the book-sometimes pseudonymously-crossed the German border in large numbers...The fascists banned the book in 1935, together with all literature on political psychology...['Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt' (an official gazette announcing new laws), No. 213, April 13, 1935. According to the VO [Verordnung] of February 4, 1933...No. 1 and No. 2 of the politico-psychological series of the Publishers for Sexual Politics, Copenhagen-Prague-Zurich, as well as all other publications scheduled to appear in this series, are to be confiscated and withdrawn from circulation by the Prussian police, as they constitute a danger to public security and order. 41230/35 II 2 B 1 Berlin 9/4/35 Gestapo. No. 2146. May 7, 1935. According to the VO of the President of the State issued on February 28, 1933, the distribution of all foreign publications of the politico-psychological series of the publishers for sexual politics ( Publishers for Sexual Politics, Copenhagen, Denmark, also Prague, Czechoslovakia and Zurich, Switzerland) is prohibited in the State until further notice. II. P. 3952 53. Berlin 6/5/35 R. M. d. I..." (-From Reich's preface to the Third [English] Revised & Enlarged Edition of 'Mass Psychology of Fascism') ]. 
Reich, Wilhelm. Charakteranalyse. Technik und Grundlagen für Studierende und praktizierende Analytiker. Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933. Reprint. Broschur, 288 Seiten.

Reich, Wilhelm Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure Translation by Theodore P[eter] Wolfe of "Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf", 1936. Vertaald in het Nederlands als: De seksuele revolutie. De Bezige Bij. Amsterdam. 1974.

| Wilhelm Reich.The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. |
Reich, Wilhelm Ether, God and Devil; Cosmic Superimposition New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroix, 1973. With five chapters newly translated by Therese Pol. 'In this book, the author describes the process of functional thinking and reveals how the inner logic of this objective thought technique led him to the discovery of cosmic orgone energy.' Chapter headings include: The Workshop of Orgonomic Functionalism; The Two Basic Pillars of Human Thought: "God" and "Ether"; Animism, Mysticism, and Mechanistics.
Reich, Wilhelm Record of a Freindship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill 1936-1957. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Beverley R. Placzek. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.
REICH, Ilse Ollendorff . WILHELM REICH. A Personal Biography. Introduction by Paul Goodman. N.Y. St. Martins Press, 1969. 167p. First edition in red cloth with gold lettering. Wilhelm Reich's wife and assistant tells us not about his theoretical wars, but about him as a person. The introduction is by Goodman, a leading intellectual of 1950s America.
SHARAF, MYRON
Fury on Earth: A biograhy of Wilhelm Reich
St. Martin's Press. NY (1983) 1st. ed. Illustrated, The definitive biography which goes beneath the myths by a former student, patient, and co-worker ). A full-scale biography of Wilhelm Reich, detailing the complexities of his character, and analysing his life's work and contibutions to psychology and psycho-analysis; Colin Wilson greatly admired this work and it is the most objective and informative of any work on Reich. "This major biography...takes a remarkably fresh look at (Reich's) emblematic life, and includes new material on his personal development and sections on his work that are accessible to the layman, but suffieciently detailed to be instructiive to the scholar. "
Mann, W. Edward (Wilhelm Reich) Orgone, Reich and Eros: Wilhelm Reich's Theory of Life Energy New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.
David Zane Mairowitz REICH FOR BEGINNERS New York: Writers and Readers, 1986. Trade Paperback. First Edition.
Robert S. Corrington, Wilhelm Reich, Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist. New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2003. pp.297.















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