Adventures in the Orgasmatron (eBook)

How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

Christopher Turner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
544 Seiten
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Verlag)
978-1-4299-6748-8 (ISBN)

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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 "e;orgastic potential."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4299-6748-X / 142996748X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-6748-8 / 9781429967488