Orgone Channel Telegram

Readers who are familiar with Reich’s account of his early years, Passion of Youth, will undoubtedly note and question the time gap between its ending in 1922 and the beginning, in 1934, of Beyond Psychology. Let me explain. During the confusion that followed Reich’s death, his archives were stolen. Although a legal action forced the return of most of this material, some documents are still missing, including all diaries from 1922 to 1934. Since attempts to retrieve them have so far failed, it was decided to proceed with the publication of these later writings and to bridge the gap with a summary of the missing years. In preparing this summary, I have drawn heavily upon an unpublished manuscript by Reich entitled History of Sexpol, from which he extracted two major works, The Function of the Orgasm and People in Trouble. These books are now the best source of information about that formative period in his life.

The concepts of traditional psychology and depth psychology are bound up with word formations. The living, however, functions beyond all verbal ideas and concepts. Verbal language is a biological form of expression on a high level of development. It is by no means an indispensable attribute of the living, for the living functions long before there is verbal language.