Este año apareciò (en inglés) la cuarta parte de los documentos, cartas y papeles de Wilhelm Reich. Esta vez es el período que faltaba. Va desde 1948 a 1957 (año de la muerte de Reich)
El título aproximado sería ¿DÓNDE ESTÁ LA VERDAD?, una buena pregunta para entender ese período de su vida y obra en norteamérica
Where’s the Truth? is the fourth and final volume of Wilhelm Reich’s
autobiographical writings, drawn from his diaries, letters, and laboratory
notebooks. These writings reveal the details of the outrider scientist’s
life—his joys and sorrows, his hopes and insecurities—and chronicle his
experiments with what he called “orgone energy.”
A student of Freud’s and a prominent research physician in the early
psychoanalytic movement, Reich immigrated to America in 1939 in flight from
Nazism, and pursued research about orgone energy functions in the living
organism and the atmosphere. Where’s the Truth? begins in January 1948, shortly
after Reich became a target of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. He had
already faced persecution by the U.S. government, having been mistaken by the
State Department and the FBI for both a Communist and a Nazi. Starting in 1947,
Reich was hounded by the FDA, which, in 1954, obtained an injunction by default
against him that enabled it to burn six tons of his published books and
research journals, and to ban the use of one of his most important experimental
research tools—the orgone energy accumulator. Challenging the right of a court
to judge basic scientific research, Reich was imprisoned in March 1957 and died
in the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, eight months later.
The text gathered here shows Reich’s steadfast determination to protect
his work
