antw. willy the healer (was: Re: Cathy's reading of Vineland)

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Dave Monroe schrieb:

> Okay, I'm FINALLY going to get me that WR (anybody
> here see that WR--The Mysteries of the Organism? 
> There's a nifty little BFI book on it as well) book. 
> I think Kai could confirm its relevance, influence,
> even, here, elsewhere in that Pynchonian canon ...


  + it's basically LIFE against DEATH: yet unlike norman o. brown reich is   
  favouring unrestricted 'genitality' (not 'pre-genitality'), which has also to 
  do with the socialist dimension of his work. (in the archives there are some  
  things on reich, among them a passage from "die massenpsychologie des 
  faschismus", 1933, which also deals with uniform-fetishism, a peculiarity of 
  the human soul readers of vineland know well about....) reich's most important 
  works are (in order of appearance):


  ° "charakteranalyse" [1933] (which marks the turning from psychoanalysis 
                                                           to bodywork)

  ° "die massenpsychologie des faschismus" [1933]


  ° "die funktion des orgasmus" [1942]


  ° "ether, god and devil" [1949] (= volume 2 of "the annals of the orgone      
                                                           institute")


  ° "the murder of christ" [1953] (= volume 1 of "the emotional plaque of       
                                                           mankind")


                       

                .... if you have little time and like to check cartoons then   
                                              there's the very recommendable: 

  ° "reich for beginners" [1986], by david zane mairowitz (text) and german 
                                  gonzales (pictures); dtsch. "wilhelm reich 
                                  kurz und knapp", ffm 1995: zweitausendeins.

  --- for a deeper (and at the same time non-sectarian) understanding of reich 
  see the well balanced:
 
  ° "fury on earth. a biography of wilhelm reich", by myron sharaf, new york 
                       1983: st. martin's/marek; dtsch. "wilhelm reich: der 
                       heilige zorn des lebendigen. die biographie", berlin 
                       1994: simon and leutner.          
         

 but hey, the best way to learn about the sea is simply to jump in.... so if  
 your local (neo)reichian worker has a special offer for you: do it! speaking  
 for myself i can only say that those 4 years and tenthousands of deutschmarks  
 were certainly good investment.... what? oh, you should have seen me before.  

 but has this anything to do with art? sure. the piano player al bauman, who  
 knew reich and put some of his poems into songs, calls for the re-evocation of 
 the artist in each person: "artist may be considered one who practices the 
 diciplines of pleasure. for our culture pleasure is itself a dicipline that 
 needs to be approached with concentration and repetition. the excercise of 
 pleasure is equivalent to the full expression of one's senses, that sensuality 
 that combines feeling, doing, thinking, perceiving --- POWER. the excercise of 
 pleasure counteracts the pleasure-anxiety that is probably the single, most 
 inclusive cultural ailment, manifested as stress and disease. the play of 
 pleasure gives us the experience of being in-the-movement, the sense of NOW and 
 the force for behavioral improvisation, biological motility.
 so between the therapeutic, dissolving armor process and worldly behavior a 
 bridge is needed. that is the process of art, the re-evocation of the artist in 
 each person...."

    
           just follow your streamings! kai (poem-writer, collage-artist) 


 ps: (question) .... "why is there such a separation between the body and the  
 spirit in this [mystic-magical] work? this to me seems not only false but very 
 sad."

 francis i. regardie: "it's very sad actually, yes. this is one of the many 
 reasons why i insist that anybody getting into the golden dawn, the great work, 
 MUST precede any practical work with some psychotherapy, because the experience 
 of any form of psychotherapy will at least make the student aware that he does 
 have a real sexuality and a rich emotional creative life which must not be 
 bottled up, repressed or inhibited. he must always realize that repression only 
 leads to compulsion in one form or another and interferes with the 
 accomplishment of his goals. therefore we must rid ourselves of both repression 
 and compulsion. one of the best ways to accomplish this goal is through 
 reichian therapy. but as i said before, any form of psychotherapy will go far 
 towards ridding the student of his armoring, thus aiding in the aquisition of 
 real insight which is the first step towards the emergence of spiritual 
 understanding and illumination." *
  

> --- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> > In einer eMail vom 29.09.2002 13:58:24
> > Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
> > cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com:
> > 
> > >  and if she betrays that Left tradition because
> > > of some inherited sexual attraction for facscism
> > > (Brock) can the ending be a happy one? 
> > 
> > Wilhelm Reich, eh? The mass psychology of fascism:
> > "The masses WANT to be oppressed. They want
> fascism."


> A will to disempowerment?  A-and that death wish ...