The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality - Hardcover

Wilhelm Reich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374177074 ISBN 13: 9780374177072

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971

Synopsis

This study of the invasion of compulsory sexual morality into human society was written in 1931 and now appears for the first time in the English language. It preceded The Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Sexual Revolution and was Reich's first step in approaching the answer to the problem of human mass neuroses.

Growing out of his involvement with the crucial question of the origin of sexual suppression, this attempt to explain historically the problem of sexual disturbances and neuroses draws upon the ethnological works of Morgan, Engels and, in particular, Malinowski, whose remarkable studies of the sexual life and customs of the primitive people of the Trobriand Islands confirmed Reich's clinical discoveries.

Repudiating Freud's idea that sexual suppression is an essential component of the development of human society, and rejecting Géza Roheim's anthropological efforts to substantiate it, he grasps the problem of the relationship of socio-economic living conditions and the formation of human character structure.

About this title

About the Author

Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many works include Listen, Little Man!, Character Analysis, and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374177074
• ISBN 13: 9780374177072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215