“What turn of body, what of lust
Undiced?
So we've worshipped you a little
More than Christ.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist
In Particular
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)
“What you worship in the Christ child, you poor little marriage-ridden man, is your own yearning for sexual freedom!”
— Wilhelm Reich, book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: You worship the Christ child. The Christ child was born of a mother who had no marriage certificate. What you worship in the Christ child, you poor little marriage-ridden man, is your own yearning for sexual freedom!
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