In this lecture, Dr. Christian Smith discusses some of the work of Wilhelm Reich, including a critical re-reading of his main theories in light of the crises in the world system today.
Reich’s work has fallen out of favour with the traditional psychoanalytic community; his preponderance with the body and later ‘orgone’ theory struck an unscientific chord with the psychoanalytic orthodoxy.
But if the body is the ‘envelope of the soul’, its treatment as something auxiliary by conventional therapies would seem to miss something, and Reich’s understanding could then be said to have hit upon an overlooked insight.
Christian Smith, PhD (University of Warwick) is currently writing his first monograph - on Shakespeare’s influence on Marx - and works as a somatic therapist.
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