“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality — both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”

— Wilhelm Reich

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The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

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Austrian-American psychoanalyst 1897–1957

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