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Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934

Reich, Wilhelm; (Baxandall, Lee, ed.)
Publisher:  Vintage Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1972   First Published:  1934
Pages:  377pp   ISBN:  0-394-71791-0
Library of Congress Number:  BF692.R35 1972b   Dewey:  72-5322
Resource Type:  Book

Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Lee Baxandall
Introduction by Bertell Ollman

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Foreword to the 1934 Edition

Introductory Note
The Materialist Discoveries of PsychoanalysisAnd Some Idealist Deviations
The Dialectic of the Psyche
The Sociological Position of Psychoanalysis
The Use of Psychoanalysis in Historical Research

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE SOVIET UNION

THE IMPOSITION OF SEXUAL MORALITY

Foreword to the first Edition

The Origin of Sexual Repression

The Sexual Economy in Matriarchal Society
Economic and Sexual Contradictions Among the Trobrianders
The Imposition of Antisexual Morality
Primitive Communism Mother-Right Private Property Father-Right
The Morgan Engels Theory: Confirmation And Corrections
The Origin of Clan Division and of the Incest Taboo

The Problem of Sexual Economy

Historical Summary: An Overview
The Gratification of Needs and Social Reality
Production and Reproduction of Sexual Morality


POLITICIZING THE SEXUAL PROBLEM OF YOUTH

WHAT IS CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS?

Preface

1) Two Kinds of Class Consciousness
2) Some Concrete Elements of Class Consciousness and Some Elements Inhibiting It
3)Bourgeois and Revolutionary Politics
4)How to Develop Class Consciousness with theEveryday Life of the Masses as a Starting
Point


REFORMING THE LABOR MOVEMENT

Point for Discussion

Making Judgments about Political Events
Methods of Proceeding
The Party We Are It

Index

Topics


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