![]() ![]() ![]() The theme is a lifelong entwining of personal/emotional/sexual life with the philosophy of ""orgastic potency"" and its later devolutions in orgonomy, orgone therapy, accumulators, and the absurdities of the bion experiments. There is the early meeting with Freud and the discovery of analysis, the rivalries and flights from country to country, from woman to woman. In his subtle interpretive portrait, there are the overwhelming events of Reich's childhood: the isolated life of the firstborn son who discovers an adulterous affair between his idolized mother and his tutor his subsequent hints to papa and the resulting suicide of his mother, followed shortly by his father's willful death. and a career teaching and practicing psychotherapy, he has remained captivated by Reich. The breach was healed, however and though Sharaf went on to a Harvard Ph.D. The grace and gentleness, compassion and intelligence that draw the reader to this latest biographer of Wilhelm Reich also raise a familiar question: How can Reich, a man of extravagant ego and preposterous claims, a philanderer and exploiter, given to petulant, outrageous behavior, engender such regard 25 years after his death in prison? Sharaf met Reich when he was an impressionable 18 and spent the next decade as Reich's student, analysand, amanuensis, and rival-an affair developed between Sharaf's wife and Reich. ![]()
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