Olivia Laing’s Everybody is a sprawling meditation on freedom and the body By blending memoir, art criticism and biography, Laing explores how the body you are born into shapes your life, your freedom and your opportunities. Wilhelm Reich’s best ideas, and his weirdest, wildest ones, stemmed from his understanding of how our personal and political histories imprint themselves on our bodies. As a young psychoanalyst working in Vienna – a protégé of Sigmund Freud – he noticed how his patients carried their emotional pain physically. He could locate the tension in their bodies, and when he worked on their stiff and knotted muscles his patients would feel emotional as well as physical relief; they’d often experience a pleasurable rippling sensation he called “streaming”.
Everybody: Searching for freedom in a constricted world
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