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Freudian Political Therapy - A Film Review
The piece kind of explores this moment right after World War II, when anti-fascist politics in the West got wedded to a program of sort of Freudian political therapy. So you trace this back to the figure, at least in the intellectual genealogy of this link between sexual repression and fascism. The renegade Freudian psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich, who's a fascinating character.