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The Long Fight for the Female Orgasm: Revisiting the Sexual Revolutionary Wilhelm Reich
The renegade psychoanalyst was shunned for falling out with Sigmund Freud, but today his ideas about female sexuality have surpassed his mentor
By
Mary Katharine Tramontana
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There’s a photograph of Kurt Cobain in a garden in Kansas in 1993, waving through a porthole, beaming, in what appears to be a one-person sauna. The rectangular cabinet he’s seated in, which belonged to William Burroughs, is an “orgone accumulator” — an invention of the renegade Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.