The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality

"The Biological Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety is composed of three essential contributions from the period: "The Orgasm as an Electrophysical Discharge," "Sexuality and Anxiety" and "The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety,"Reich's detailed report on the physiological experiments in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory.

Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many works include Listen, Little Man!, Character Analysis, and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957.

Foreword

xi

The Orgasm as an Electrophysiological Discharge

3

(18)

Some peculiar features of sexuality

4

(5)

The orgasm formula: mechanical tension → bioelectrical charge → bioelectrical discharge → mechanical relaxation

9

(12)

Sexuality and Anxiety

21

(50)

Starting point and fundamental ideas

21

(4)

Sexual excitation and anxiety affect

25

(15)

Tendency to assume spherical form

40

(1)

The primary vegetative form of the antitesis between sexulity and anxiety

41

(7)

Kraus's ``fluid theory of life''

48

(8)

Potassium and calcium ions and the vegetative function

56

(6)

The antithesis of center and periphery

62

(9)

The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety

71

(60)

Basic summary of the clincal approach

71

(6)

Observations of the oscillograph

77

(17)

Anxiety and unpleasure

94

(6)

More evidence of the basic antithesis of vegetative life

100

(5)

Prerequisites for the pleasure reaction

105

(2)

Electrical excitation in kissing

107

(6)

Results of the control experiments

113

(6)

The ``vegetative center''

119

(7)

Some theoretical conclusions

126

(5)

Electrophotographic Data

131

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The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety

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