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Reichian, n. and a.|ˈraɪxɪən| [f. the name of Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian psychologist + -ian.] A. n. A supporter of the theories or practices of Wilhelm Reich, esp. those relating to sexual energy as vital energy (cf. orgone), to its effect in determining character and mental health, or to his hypothesis that authoritarian regimes emerge in cultures that are sexually repressive. B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or following Reich or his theories.
1959Partisan Rev. XXVI. 51 The Reichians want to believe in Socialism again. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 295 The Yoga's prana, the Reichian's orgone, Lawrence's ‘blood’. 1969P. A. Robinson Freudian Left i. 10 The true Reichian is convinced that Reich's greatest contributions lay..in biophysics and astronomy. 1970R. Lowell Notebook 247 Such cures the bygone Reichian prophets swore to. 1976Listener 8 Jan. 4/2 One of the unique features of present-day Portugal is the concurrence of political and sexual revolution. It provides a laboratory for Reichian radicals who see a causal relationship between sexual repression and totalitarianism, on one side, and sexual liberation and revolution, on the other. 1978N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Feb. 29/4 The Victorian idea of TB as a disease of low energy..has its exact complement in the Reichian idea of cancer as a disease of unexpressed energy. |