Adventures in the Orgasmatron (83 page)

57.
Kenneth Rexroth,
An Autobiographical Novel
, ed. Linda Hamalian (New York: New Directions, 1991), 508.

58.
Ibid., 510–11.

59.
Kenneth Rexroth,
The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World
(New York: Herder and Herder, 1970), 14

60.
Rexroth,
Autobiographical Novel
, 119–120.

61.
Interview with Theodore Hauschka, February 9, 1953. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) files, Wilhelm Reich, 1897–1957, National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.

62.
Theodore Hauschka, “The Cancer Biopathy of Wilhelm Reich,” FDA files, National Library of Medicine. Reich managed to obtain a copy of Hauschka’s paper, referred to by Clara Thompson in
Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development
(1950; rev. ed. New York: Transaction, 2002), which included a chapter on Reich that praised his early work but dismissed his orgone theories. He later threatened to sue both Thompson and Hauschka for libel.

63.
Ibid.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Miller,
Big Sur
, 45.

66.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 4),
Journal of Orgonomy
12, no. 1, 1978: 16.

67.
Inspector’s Report, September 8, 1947, FDA Archive. Two months after Brady’s article appeared, the director of the medical advisory division of the Federal Trade Commission sent a copy to the FDA.

68.
James Harvey Young,
The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967), 191.

69.
Inspector’s Report, September 8, 1947.

70.
“Instructions on how to use the Orgone Accumulator,” FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

71.
Inspector’s Report, November 18, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

72.
Ibid.

73.
Inspector’s Report, November 26, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

74.
Inspector’s Report, November 18, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

75.
Inspector’s Report, January 5, 1948, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

76.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 66.

77.
Inspector’s Report, September 30, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

78.
Ibid.

79.
Ibid.

80.
Ibid.

81.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 412–13.

82.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 84.

83.
Ibid., 69.

84.
Inspector’s Report, Setember 30, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

85.
Ibid.

86.
Wilhelm Reich,
The Cancer Biopathy
, volume 2 of
The Discovery of Orgone
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), 424.

87.
Ibid., 415.

88.
Ibid., 336.

89.
Inspector’s Report, September 8, 1947, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

90.
Inspector’s Report, January 5, 1948, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

91.
Ibid.

92.
Inspector’s Report, January 5, 1948, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

93.
Inspector’s Report, April 2, 1948, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

94.
Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
, 62.

95.
Ibid., 62.

Nine

1.
Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
(Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1948), 7.

2.
Lionel Trilling, “The Kinsey Report,”
The Liberal Imagination
(New York: Doubleday, 1957), 218.

3.
Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
, 224.

4.
James H. Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life
(New York: Norton, 1997), 516.

5.
Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
, 347.

6.
Ibid., 4.

7.
Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey
, 195.

8.
May 10, 1948, Kinsey’s FBI file, FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.,
http://foia.fbi.gov/kinsey_alfred/kinsey_alfred_part03.pdf
.

9.
Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey
, 632.

10.
January 5, 1950, Kinsey’s FBI file,
http://foia.fbi.gov/kinsey_alfred/kinsey_alfred_part03.pdf
. For Hoover’s similar threat against Joseph Bryan III, who had called Hoover a “pansy in pants,” see Athan G. Theoharis,
J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995).

11.
Richard Hack,
Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(Beverly Hills: New Millennium, 2004), 275.

12.
Theoharis,
J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime
, 103–04.

13.
Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey
, 595.

14.
Ibid., 596.

15.
Beverley R. Placzek,
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936–1957
(London: Gollancz, 1982), 220. Kinsey cited Reich’s
The Function of the Orgasm
to question Reich’s notion of spontaneous ejaculation, which Kinsey thought impossible.

16.
Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey
, 579.

17.
Ibid., 579.

18.
Untitled 46-page document, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

19.
Wardell Baxter Pomeroy,
Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research
(New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 195.

20.
Morton Herskowitz, author interview, November 2004.

21.
Wilhelm Reich, “Orgone Therapy: Critical Issues in the Therapeutic Process,” tape recordings of lectures, summer 1949, Wilhelm Reich Museum, Rangeley, Me.

22.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Neill to Reich, 238.

23.
A. W. Hamilton, “Reactions to the First Orgonomic Conference,”
Orgone Energy Bulletin
1, no. 3 (1949): 117. The conference took place on October 1, 1948.

24.
Myron Sharaf,
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), 27.

25.
Reich, “Orgone Therapy.”

26.
Wilhelm Reich,
Listen, Little Man!
(Rangeley, Me: Orgone Institute Press, 1948), 43.

27.
Morton Herskowitz, “Recollections of Reich,”
Journal of Orgonomy
12, no. 2 (1978): 187.

28.
Ibid., 188.

29.
Morton Herskowitz, “Memories of Reich: Dr. Herskowitz Recalls His Experiences with Wilhelm Reich,” available at
www.orgonomicscience.org/history.html
.

30.
Morton Herskowitz,
Emotional Armoring: An Introduction to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy
(Hamburg, Germany: Lit, 2001), 85.

31.
Placzek,
Record of Friendship
, Reich to Neill, 335.

32.
Ibid., 271.

33.
Ibid., Neill to Reich, 324.

34.
Wilhelm Reich, “Falling Anxiety in a Three-Week-Old Infant,” in
Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology
, ed. Mary B. Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983).

35.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Reich to Neill, 312.

36.
Peter Reich,
A Book of Dreams
(New York: Harper and Row, 1973), 136.

37.
Ibid., 137.

38.
Ibid.

39.
Ibid., 158.

40.
Paki Wright, author interview, November 2005.

41.
Wilhelm Reich, “Meeting the Emotional Plague,” in Reich,
Children of the Future
, 78.

42.
Elsworth Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 1),
Journal of Orgonomy
10, no. 2 (1976): 188.

43.
Reich, “Meeting the Emotional Plague,” 79.

44.
Ibid., 81.

45.
Ibid.

46.
Ibid., 84.

47.
Annotation to untitled 46-page document, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine. See also Wilhelm Reich,
The Murder of Christ
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966).

48.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 420.

49.
Interview with Dr. Boote, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

50.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 5),
Journal of Orgonomy
12, no. 2 (November 1978): 183.

51.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 271.

52.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, 43.

53.
Eva Reich, “I Was the Strange Doctor,”
International Journal of Life Energy
1, no. 1 (1979): 32–42.

54.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 149.

55.
Peter Heller,
A Child Analysis with Anna Freud
(Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1990), 342.

56.
Susanna Steig, “My Childhood Experiences with Reichian Therapy,”
pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw2/Reich/others.html
.

57.
“The Silent Observer,” February 1952, Wilhelm Reich Papers, Sigmund Freud Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The “Silent Observer,” or “SO,” was the authorial voice used by Reich when he annotated or added to the documents preserved in his archive.

58.
Steig, “My Childhood Experiences with Reichian Therapy.”

59.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 6),
Journal of Orgonomy
13, no. 1 (May 1979): 43.

60.
Ibid., 40.

61.
See Lorna Luft,
Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
(New York: Pocket Books, 1998), in which she describes her therapy visits to Dr. Duvall.

Ten

1.
Ted Morgan,
Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America
(New York: Random House, 2003), 477.

2.
Fred J. Cook,
The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy
(New York: Random House, 1971), 262.

3.
Tom Ross, speaking in Digne Meller-Marcovicz, director,
Wilhelm Reich: Viva Little Man
(2004).

4.
“Administrative Report,” October 25, 1950, Reich’s FBI file, FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (For atomic bomb rumors, see “Office Memorandum,” January 11, 1949.)