The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with original price of $4.50 to front flap, with small tears and shallow chipping to edges and head and tail of spine, faint dust soiling, and light toning. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Students in France and Germany during 1960s protests were known to throw copies of this book, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, at police and Michel Foucault credited Reich as being a major influence in his The History of Sexuality trilogy. Reich's legacy today remains controversial, though his work was very influential throughout the 20th century on a number of philosophical and social movements. In addition to his work related to Orgonomy and sexual health, Reich also eventually dabbled in areas as diverse and eccentric as weather control or 'cloudbusting,' curing cancer, and UFO visitation, to name a few. He fled Europe in 1939 amidst career troubles and the spread of Nazism to settle in the United States, where his development of a special device he called the 'Orgone Accumulator' eventually landed him in trouble with the scientific establishment and FDA, who destroyed his inventory of Orgone Accumulators and burned 6 tons of his books and publications in 1956. Reich's transgressive ideas about sexuality, health, and what he termed 'Orgone Energy' in the 1940s and 1950s resulted in his expulsion from the mainstream scientific and academic world (with his ideas being derided as pseudoscience). Originally published in 1933, The Mass Psychology of Fascism is the controversial medical doctor and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's (1897-1957) theory of how fascists and authoritarians come into power through a politically and ideologically-oriented sexual repression of the people. Wolfe from the revised and enlarged third German edition. This is the first English language edition of Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism, translated by Theodore P.

First English edition (translated from the third, revised and enlarged, German edition).

The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich