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Darned cockwombles.
Would say you are exactly right about that. The thing with Reich is that he never had the luxury of doing a career end retrospective summing up, 'cos of the FDA case. So you have to kind of piece it together. I get most of this from my friend Peter Jones - he has a book out, I'll send round a PM, see if you're interested. Part of it is also is that he was incredibly intellectual restless and kept moving at a pace that ouutsripped everyone around him, for all of his life.
Was listening to this last night - the podcast is put together by a guy I started following 'cos of Syria stuff. Was pleasantly surprised to hear, in the talk he plays, Reich's Mass Psychology evokved as essential for understanding Trump. It's absolutely germane to this thread in that "what the Right gets right" is an intuitive understanding of the affective, emotional power of politics, the theatre of discourse:
Not really, cos I've been so busy with MA. One striking thing to me is EDMR - the techniques are exactly the same as the beginnings of classical Reichian therapy - eye movement. The founder has turned it into a whole discipline in itself, though Reich's work implies a "repatterning" of the whole body. It's suggested that you begin with the eyes first and gentials last as the sexual fear we all have is so strong it can really fuck things up if unleashed too quickly. My therapist described the eye work as kind of developing an "anchor" into reality that you could hold onto, when some of the heavier stuff is unleashed.
Sorry Danny, I only just saw this. Definitely interested in hearing about that book from Peter Jones. Following on from what you say, there aren't many thinkers who are that interested in being inter-disciplinary, so those that are tend to be incredibly important.
Will take a listen to that podcast, sounds interesting, thanks.
I didn't know about the link between EMDR and Reich, makes a lot of sense. I'd always veer towards the more generalist/holistic approach in that situation - concentrating solely upon one area of the body seems very useful but not sufficient, and presumably EMDR is far more effective for some people than others, hence some of the criticism of the approach (from a quick internet search)