I think European culture has reached a point where touch, sex and intimacy are sufficiently unrepressed amongst the younger generation that either there is no more emotional plague or Reich’s model will prove to have been incomplete.
Equinoctial greetings earthlings! The equinox represents the biannual moment at which everywhere on Earth is experiencing days and nights of the same length. A moment of global unity therefore.
In Deleuze’s and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (1972), the authors take issue with Freud’s account of the Oedipus complex as a structuring account of the development of male sexuality and socialisation. This myth, they argue, instead is to be understood within the social function of the bourgeois nuclear family to repress desire. It directs libidinal energy into the form of a classical drama motivated by the extreme constraints imposed by the bounds of permitted sexual expression in bourgeois society, but is in no way a universal framework within which to understand infant development. Viewed in a broader context, Deleuze’s and Guattari’s project…