Adventures In The Orgasmatron

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429967488

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner Pdf

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. Central to the narrative is the orgone box—a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential." The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia. In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers—efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.

Author : Peter Reich
Publisher : Peter Reich
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458179289

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A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich Pdf

Author : James DeMeo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Orgonomy
ISBN : 0980231671

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In Defense of Wilhelm Reich by James DeMeo Pdf

Wilhelm Reich has been chronically slandered and misrepresented in the popular media, and in "scientific" circles, beyond all rationality. His controversial research findings have been replicated by other scholars and scientists, but the entire subject of his work has been a serious Taboo for decades. Natural Scientist DeMeo corrects the record.

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Sex (Psychology)
ISBN : 0007507747

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner Pdf

This is a book about the prehistory of perhaps the key revolution of the twentieth century - the Sexual Revolution which broke out, first, in the USA.

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sex
ISBN : 0007181574

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner Pdf

Adventures in the Orgasmatron is the untold story of the dawn of the sexual revolution in America - an illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Author : Dr Christopher Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007436467

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Dr Christopher Turner Pdf

Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story: an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Author : Olivia Laing
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393608786

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Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing Pdf

"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101563700

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The Quest by Daniel Yergin Pdf

“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal “It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.

Author : Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476601687

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Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist by Aaron John Gulyas Pdf

Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.

Author : Victor I. Stoichita
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861890001

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Short History of the Shadow by Victor I. Stoichita Pdf

Looks at the depiction and meaning of shadows in the history of Western art

Author : James Nasmyth,James Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Moon
ISBN : IBNF:CF000521639

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The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite by James Nasmyth,James Carpenter Pdf

Author : Kris Kneen
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922079381

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The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine by Kris Kneen Pdf

Holly wears a ring that says True Love Waits and worries because her boyfriend isn’t trying to persuade her otherwise. Then a boy in her English tute invites her to join his book club. Shocked to find herself at ‘sex club’, plunged into in the classics of erotic literature, Holly soon becomes fascinated: by the strange new world of Eros, by the increasing power she senses in her own body—and by a weird blue glow emanating from the most private part of her self. But Salter and Nabokov are one thing. When Holly encounters The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman—quickly followed by the infamous orgone generator of Wilhelm Reich—things are set to explode An amazing literary sci-fi superhero sex romp from Australia’s genre-bending queen of erotica.

Author : John Harte
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 093570258X

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Consider A Spherical Cow by John Harte Pdf

This book offers a variety of exciting techniques for approaching contemporary environmental problems, such as 'What was the pH of rainfall before the Industrial Revolution?'

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : National socialism and medicine
ISBN : OCLC:749335161

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner Pdf

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807897019

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The Party of Eros by Richard King Pdf

Party of Eros: Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom