The 1954 Orgone Accumulator Injunction: What the Court Record Shows

The 1954 Orgone Accumulator Injunction: What the Court Record Shows

A short guide to a court record often summarized too simply: what happened, what the appeal decided, and what it did not test.How the case beganOn 10 February 1954, the United States filed suit in federal court in Maine under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act....
Wilhelm Reich and the Making of Orgone

Wilhelm Reich and the Making of Orgone

Orgone is closely associated with Wilhelm Reich, but the story is more than the origin of a single term. Reich developed the idea within a wider body of work, moving between psychoanalysis, theories of bodily expression, and claims about energy in living things. Those...