[lit-ideas] Re: Reich's Orgone
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:09:01 -0000
Add to the list:
1972ish Hawkwind [Space Rock Band] Song called Orgone Accumulator
I've got an Orgone Accumulator
It makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator
It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator
Those energy stimulators
Turn your eyeballs into crators
But an Orgone Accumulator
Is a superman creator
They did their research did Hawkwind and they had a very small rhyming
dictionary.
Cheers
Simon
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From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:50 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Reich's Orgone
Seeing that Geary's ex-wife is a Nonnie, and that D. Ritchie finds the
nonny-no a poetic refrain, I thought some credit to Mailer's Reichian oregon
could be given here.
Hey, that's where R. Paul lives, Oregone.
Must say that Reich coining the term seems pathetic as a physical
Pre-Socratic!
"He had a small motor which was charged by an orgone accumulator."
--- Geary, do you still keep the one we used at Seattle in the attic?
Cheers,
JL
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orgone
[< German Orgon (?1940 in the passage translated in quot. 19421 at main
sense; < Org- (in Organismus ORGANISM n.) + -on (in Hormon HORMONE n.)), with
ending remodelled after HORMONE n.]
In the psychoanalytical theory of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957): a supposed
excess sexual energy or life-force distributed throughout the universe which
can be collected and stored for subsequent use in the treatment of mental and
physical illnesses. Freq. attrib., as orgone accumulator, orgone box, orgone
energy, orgone therapy, etc.
1942 T. P. WOLFE tr. W. Reich Discov. Orgone I. ix. 341
This energy, which is capable of
charging non-conducting substance, I termed
orgone.
1942 T. P. WOLFE tr. W. Reich in Internat. Jrnl. Sex-econ. & Orgone Res. July
138/2
Our orgone therapy experiments with cancer patients consist in their sitting
in an orgone accumulator.
1942 T. P. WOLFE tr. W. Reich in Internat. Jrnl. Sex-econ. & Orgone Res. July
143/2
The patient left the orgone box.
1949 Orgone Energy Bull. Apr. 95
Physical orgone therapy, application of physical orgone energy concentrated
in an orgone accumulator to increase the natural bio-energetic defenses of the
organism against disease.
1952 M. MCCARTHY Groves of Academe (1953) ii. 24 A senior girl's voice,
plaintive, ‘Dr. Mulcahy, really, do we have to believe in orgones?’
1973 A. S. NEILL Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! II. 141, I could not understand
Reich's theory of Orgone Energy... He had a small motor which was charged by an
orgone accumulator.
1995 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 18/7 Oh yes, there's definitely something there, she
enthuses, and volunteers that she uses an orgone blanket to ward off colds.
1999 F. WYNNE tr. M. Houellebecq Atomised (2001) 126 There were still
workshops on sensual massage, and the liberation of the orgone, but interest in
the esotericastrology, Egyptian tarot, working with chakrasboomed.
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