A Book of Dreams

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I agree with what I originally said in that Peter struggled to process his unconventional childhood. I wish the author had more info about himself and what he is up to now but the book is out of print and he has disappeared into anonymity. If you haven't gathered already from some of these lyrics, this is a very unusual book about a very unusual childhood. Anyway, I'm still keen to learn more about Reich, because his ideas were interesting, and while clearly a lot of what he ended up believing was nonsense, there's apparently something in some of what he did, and there was something weird going on with the FDA smashing his orgone accumulators and him dying in prison and all.

And the long term psychological impacts that mental illness and delusions can have on those closest to the sufferer. Peter Reich is the son of Wilhelm Reich, one of the most brilliant and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.He was given responsibility in this cosmic war by operating the cloudbuster, a machine that could control the weather. Which is exactly what happened - the police came, and the boy couldn't run fast enough to warn his Dad. Remembering who you are and where you came from is crucial, especially during that transition to adulthood.

Peter inmortaliza esa vida dejada atrás muy temprano con las reflexiones de un adulto que busca crecer, soltar y sanar, mientras repasa con sumo detalle lo que vivirá con él para siempre. After fleeing the Nazi regime to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Reich eventually settled down in the United States, where he began on a series of inventions and theories which made his colleagues question his sanity. This helped make Reich a celebrated name among bohemians-including some very notable names in the counterculture of the time such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S.

One finds themselves constantly asking whether what one is reading is meant to be reality, or a dream, or under water, or in the sky. It seems to have made the rounds in influential artistic circles a few decades ago, but never really into the mainstream public. There are moments of genuine poetry in A Book of Dreams, owing to the substantial portion written from the perspective of a precocious kid. Wilhelm Reich fue un incomprendido que terminó sus días encarcelado y lejos del hijo que amaba, quien lo recordaría por el resto de sus días en ese horizonte extraño que desdibujó la realidad y el sueño y convirtió a su infancia en un misterio indescriptible.

He began as a student of Sigmund Freud, but, whereas Freud believed that sexual repression was necessary to provide the structure and driving force for civilisation, Reich believed that it was at the very heart, not only of many psychological and physical ailments, but that it is part of a destructive tendency in human behaviour which at times expresses itself through the murder of the healthiest individuals – e. The writing was at times really amazing, I would give this book a rating of five, except that the part where he becomes an aimless hip twenty something in the 60s kind of detracts. I would recommend this to readers looking for something a little different; an auto-biographical mishmash of dreams and memories with the added elements of weather machines and UFOs. While Freud viewed sexuality as something to be controlled and repressed, Reich viewed sexuality as something to be practiced freely, even coining the phrase "the sexual revolution". Fantastic book about one of the most misunderstood persons in history, as well as the victim of one of the worst examples of censorship in the United States.

Whether or not that was the author's intention, I found it abrasive and hard to read as each subsection skipped around. In the span of owning this book since this summer and adding it to this list, I have read it three times prior to deciding to put it down for a while. Whilst the story is unusual and quite unique, the writing on a second go-around feels a little detached and removed.

I was not entirely sure what to expect when I picked this up and paid the most money I have ever paid for any used book - but I did know that there was something special about it because of the sheer amount of other works of art that used this text as an inspiration.Peter Reich is the only son of Wilhelm Reich, a famously strange pseudo-science philosopher active in the mid-20th century. There is something intimate about being allowed to witness this very private reflection, and for this reason the book is as emotionally compelling as it is absolutely strange.