by Wilhelm Reich · Diario El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489669703
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«La función del orgasmo» is the essay on sexuality and psychoanalysis by Wilhelm Reich, published by Diario El País in paperback (402 pages, in Spanish).
In this work, Wilhelm Reich argues that the sexual repression imposed by society is the origin of neurotic symptoms and character traits, and that only the release of sexual energy through orgasm can achieve good mental health. It is Wilhelm Reich's most controversial book and presents a radical thesis on the relationship between sexual repression and mental health.
This book is part of El País's Clásicos del Siglo XX collection. Wilhelm Reich, a disciple of Freud, was an Austrian psychoanalyst, sexologist and politician (1897-1957).
For readers interested in psychoanalysis, the history of sexuality and the most controversial ideas of the 20th century.
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.
