@article{HristevaBennett, author = {Hristeva, Galina and Bennett, Philip W.}, title = {Wilhelm Reich in Soviet Russia: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and the Stalinist reaction}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 1, 2018), pp. 054-069.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 1, 2018), pp. 054-069.}, abstract = {In 1929, Wilhelm Reich lectured on >Psychoanalysis as a natural science< before the Communist Academy in Moscow; he was the only Freudian-trained Central European psychoanalyst to do so. That same year, his article >Dialectical materialism and psychoanalysis< was published in the Academy's journal, Under the Banner of Marxism, in both Moscow and Berlin. By this time, Reich's involvement with political activism aligned with the Austrian Communist Party was increasing, while simultaneously psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union was in decline. Our paper places these events in their proper historical context and includes a discussion of the various attempts to determine the compatibility of psychoanalysis and Marxism. We offer analyses of both the article, >Dialectical materialism and psychoanalysis,< and the lecture, >Psychoanalysis as a natural science,< and the reactions to both by Reich's Russian critics. We show the ways in which responses to his lecture foreshadow what becomes the standard Soviet assessment of psychoanalysis. As an appendix to this paper, we provide the first English translation of the Russian account of his lecture, as published in the Herald of the Communist Academy.}, language = {en} } @article{Bennett, author = {Bennett, Philip W.}, title = {The persecution of Dr. Wilhelm Reich by the government of the United States}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 051-065.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 051-065.}, abstract = {Most people who recognize his name are aware that Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was considered to be one of Freud's most brilliant students and an important contributor to psychoanalytic theory. But it is also widely known that this innovative thinker, who is still read with interest over 50 years after his death, died in a federal penitentiary in the USA. The case against Wilhelm Reich, brought by the Food and Drug Administration, has been admirably detailed in Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A. by Jerome Greenfield. Less well known are two other intertwined investigations of Reich, the first by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which led to his imprisonment for nearly a month after the USA declared war on Germany in 1941; and the second by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, in an attempt to remove his naturalized citizenship and deport him. This paper examines in detail these two assaults on Reich, placing them within the historical context of a lifetime of marginalization and denunciation by authorities, from the Communist Party in Germany to the International Psychoanalytic Association to academic biologists in Norway to right-wing Christian moralists in the USA and finally to agencies of the US government.}, language = {en} }