Wilhelm Reich, Orgastic Potency, and the Science of Orgones with James E. Strick
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The Origins of the Water Libido
Freud believed that the opposition to psychoanalysis was never going to yield until somebody proved in a laboratory that Freud's ideas were real and could be validated by modern laboratory science. The idea of trying to figure out what is it exactly that's bound up in these muscular tensions and that gets released when somehow some kind of experience like in therapy causes those tensions to get released, he said. He later came to have a more nuanced view and thought that that what that meant was that the libido was in.
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