page_title: Freudo-Marxism
section_title: Wilhelm Reich
hierarchical_section_title: Freudo-Marxism / Emergence / Wilhelm Reich
caption_attribution_description: English: Description: Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), Austrian-American psychoanalyst, in his mid-20s in a Vienna cafe. Source: Elizabeth Danto (2007). Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis &amp; Social Justice, 1918-1938. Columbia University Press, first published 2005, p. 84. Danto credits the A.A. Brill library at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Date: circa 1922, Vienna, Austria Author: Unknown, possibly A.A. Brill (1874–1948)
context_page_description: Freudo-Marxism is a loose designation for philosophical perspectives informed by both the Marxist philosophy of Karl Marx and the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. It has a rich history within continental philosophy, beginning in the 1920s and 1930s and running through critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism.
context_section_description: Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Freud, and a radical psychiatrist. He was the author of several influential books and essays, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936). His work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Fritz Perls's Gestalt therapy, Alexander Lowen's bioenergetic analysis, and Arthur Janov's primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.
caption: Wilhelm Reich in his mid-20s
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