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rebellious forces because any rebellion is laden with anxiety; it produces, by inhibiting sexual curiosity and sexual thinking in the child, a general inhibition of thinking and of critical faculties. In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. Initially, the child has to submit to the structure of the authoritarian miniature state, the family, which process makes it capable of later subordination to the general authoritarian system. The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and anxiety.
1034: 324:. A repressive family, a baneful religion, a sadistic educational system, the terrorism of the party, fear of economic manipulation, fear of racial contamination, and permitted violence against minorities all operated in and through individuals' (the collective) unconscious psychology of emotions, traumatic experiences, fantasies, libidinal economies, and so on, and Nazi political ideology and practice exacerbated and exploited these tendencies. 331:. He believed that reason alone would be able to check the forces of his own projected irrationality,and loosen the grip of mysticism and is also capable of playing its own part in developing original modes of political action, building on a deep respect for life, and promoting a harmonious channelling of libido and 389:, the most important place of reproduction of the reactionary and conservative individual. Being itself caused by the authoritarian system, the family becomes the most important institution for its conservation. In this connection, the findings of Morgan and of Engels are still entirely correct. 298:
and – instead – expend the repressed energy into authoritarian idealism. Hence, in adults, any rebellious and sexual impulses experienced would cause fundamental anxiety and – therefore, instead – social control is used to reduce anxiety. Fear of revolt, as well as fear of sexuality, were thus
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Reich argued for sexualization of children via what he believed to be the Suppression of the natural sexuality in the child, particularly of its genital sexuality, makes the child apprehensive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority, good and adjusted in the authoritarian sense; it paralyzes the
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over another In 1933, Reich set out to analyze "the economic and ideological structure of (particularly) German society between 1928 and 1933" in this book. The healthy alternative, he proposes, is a form of
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From the standpoint of social development, the family cannot be considered the basis of the authoritarian state, only as one of the most important institutions which support it. It is, however, its central
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For Reich, fighting fascism meant first labeling civilized society as Fascist and then studying it pseudo scientifically, which was to say, using the methods of
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in Germany – as opposed to the somewhat more liberal (post-revolutionary) Russia. As children, Reich believed that members of the (German)
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in 1934 for his political militancy and his views on sexuality. This book – and all of Reich's published books – were later ordered to be
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that Reich was considered to be a liability to the KPD, and was subsequently kicked out of the party upon the book's publication in 1933.
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Chapter V contains the famous statement that the family is the first cell of the fascist society:
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The question at the heart of Reich's book was this: why did the masses turn to one form of
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Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
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was probably the chief protagonist behind his expulsion and, even though
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The authoritarian family as the first cell of the fascist society
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Wilhelm Reich
Fascism
authoritarianism
sexual repression
ISBN
978-0-374-50884-5
OCLC
411193197
German
psychology
psychoanalyst
psychiatrist
Wilhelm Reich
fascists
authoritarians
sexual repression
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Galicia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
psychoanalysis
psychiatry
Vienna
Social Democratic Party of Austria
Communist Party of Germany
Berlin
communist regime
Soviet Union
authoritarianism

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