Colin Wilson, The Quest for Wilhelm Reich

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It was inevitable that Colin Wilson would become interested in Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) at some stage for he was, very much, the “outsider” of the psychoanalytic movement. He first mentioned Reich in his classic 1971 study

The Occult

. In the same year his essay entitled “Freud, Reich and Nietzsche” was published in

The Humanist

and an extended book review, “Wilhelm Reich’s Sex and Psychology”, appeared a year later in

Books and Bookmen

. This review was published in its own right as the eleven-page pamphlet

Wilhelm Reich

in 1974 and included in the booklet

Hesse—Reich—Borges

. In the latter he mentioned that he was currently researching a book on Reich. That book,

The Quest for Wilhelm Reich

, appeared in 1981, published by Granada Publishing Ltd. in the UK and Anchor…

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Citation: Stanley, Colin. "The Quest for Wilhelm Reich". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 March 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23965, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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