− | Until the age of 13, Wilhelm Reich was instructed at home. His parents were of Jewish confession. In 1909, his mother Cecilia Reich committed suicide. Wilhelm apparently revealed his mother's intimate relationship with one of his tutors to his father, and therefore played a role in his mother's suicide. His father died from tuberculosis in 1914. Having passed his university-entrance diploma, he went to the Italian front in World War I as a lieutenant. In 1914, Reich fled from the advancing Russian army. After World War I he studied human medicine and became a psychiatrist. In Vienna he met Sigmund Freud in person and became interested in Freudian psychoanalysis. In 1928, he became a member of the German Communist Party KPD, moved to Berlin in 1930 and founded the Sexpol publishing house and a magazine titled "Magazine for Political Psychology and Sexual Economy". In 1932, Reich was excluded from KPD for undue deviationism. During this time, he attempted to combine marxism and psychoanalysis. He organized the sexpol movement (sex education for workers and adolescents). In 1933, Reich published his masterpiece, "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". | + | Until the age of 13, Wilhelm Reich was instructed at home. His parents were of Jewish denomination. In 1909, his mother Cecilia Reich committed suicide. Wilhelm apparently had revealed his mother's intimate relationship with one of his tutors to his father, and therefore played a role in his mother's suicide. His father died from tuberculosis in 1914. Having passed his university-entrance diploma, he went to the Italian front as a lieutenant in World War I. In 1914, Reich fled from the advancing Russian army. After World War I, he studied human medicine and became a psychiatrist. In Vienna he met Sigmund Freud in person and took an interested in Freudian psychoanalysis. In 1928, he became a member of the German Communist Party KPD, moved to Berlin in 1930 and founded the Sexpol publishing house and a magazine titled "Magazine for Political Psychology and Sexual Economy". In 1932, Reich was excluded from KPD for undue deviationism. During this time, he attempted to combine marxism and psychoanalysis. He organized the sexpol movement (sex education for workers and adolescents). In 1933, Reich published his masterpiece, "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". |
− | Being a communist of Jewish origin, Reich fled Germany and went to Denmark in 1933, and further to Norway in 1934. There he began to develop his [[Bion]] concept. At the instigation of Sigmund Freud, Reich was excluded from the Psychoanalytic Society in the same year. In 1936, he dissociated himself from the Soviet Union. Reich moved to England in 1939 and finally to New York. | + | Being a communist of Jewish descent, Reich fled Germany and went to Denmark in 1933, and further to Norway in 1934 where he began to develop his [[Bion]] concept. At the instigation of Sigmund Freud, Reich was excluded from the Psychoanalytic Society in the same year. In 1936, he dissociated himself from the Soviet Union. Reich moved to England in 1939 and finally to New York. |