social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious. - Wilhelm Reich

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social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious.

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Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 - 3 November 1957) was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He became a controversial social theorist and researcher, who believed that he had discovered a "vital energy" which he called "Orgone energy", though his theories about it are generally considered pseudoscience by most scientific authorities. He died while in a U.S federal prison on a two year sentence for failing to comply with court orders prohibiting some of his activities and research, just days before he would have been eligible for parole.

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