The Austrian saying, “A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles acquire in early childhood. 10 : Work DemocracyContext: Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom. Discover interesting quotes and translate them. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.”, “As painful and embarrassing as it may be, the fact remains that we are confronted with a human structure that has been shaped by thousands of years of mechanistic civilization and is expressed in social helplessness and an intense desire for a führer.”, “The socially irresponsible man is the man absorbed in sexual conflicts.”, “Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. “You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. It was written in 1933; the first edition appeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April of 1934, in Denmark" (1970b, p. xvii). Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexuality identical. The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. It is work-democracy's contention that, by its very nature, politics is and has to be unscientific, i. e., that it is an expression of human helplessness, poverty, and suppression. I looked on my bookshelf and found Reich’s Character Analysis that I had inherited from another friend who had passed. Join us. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. In brief, I believe that the twentieth century, with its gigantic catastrophes, ushers in a new social era, an era free of politics. We’d love your help. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.”, “As bitter as it may be, the fact remains: It is the irresponsibleness of masses of people that lies at the basis of fascism of all countries, nations, and races, etc. Thus, here too we find a confirmation of the fact that man's compulsive moralistic defense forces constitute the basis of political reaction's power.”, “The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the same time. All the elements of the reactionary man's structure are developed in this struggle. The Mass Psychology of Fascism : Wilhelm Reich : 9780285647015 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Only this contradiction inherent in religious excitation makes the strength and the tenacity of the religions understandable: the contradiction of its being at one and the same time antisexual and a substitute for sexuality.”, “Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. The text of the entry was as follows: He demarcates himself in all possible ways from the bad animal and points, in proof of his "being better," to culture and civilization which distinguish him from the animal. Such experiences rarely reach the stage of genital consciousness and thus are apt to take place in other sexual channels, such as masochistic martyrdom.”, “This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. 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