thirties psychoanalyst and contemporary of freud. Member of the german Communist
party until 1936. Exiled from Germany for his opposition to the Nazi
party. Author of such books as Listen Little Man, The Sexual Revolution and the Mass Psychology of Fascism. Provided a revolutionary analysis of the means by which
fascist and totalitarian states find support amongst the populace. Introduced the term "character armoring" to represent neuroses manifesting themselves as obstructions to the
flow of energy within the human body.
Moves to Norway and later the USA, where his work on bioenergy leads him to develop the concept of "orgone energy". Develops "orgone accumulator box" which works like a tanning-
bed for this orgone energy. Is widely ridiculed for this as well as his subsequent claim to have found a cure for cancer, and a weather-changing machine. Yet his "orgone box" repeatedly saves the lives of mice injected with cancer cells and placed inside it.
Puts
ten milligrams of radium in an orgone box- the result is everyone in the 3-story building gets radiation sickness and radiation detectors 120 miles away pick up trace amounts of radioactivity.
His "orgone boxes" are destroyed by the
FDA when he attempts to sell them across state lines.
He then moves from New York to
Arizona to continue his weather research. he is hired twice by farmers who want him to make it
rain and on both occasions DOES. One week after his arrival in a small
arizona town a torrential rainstorm breaks out and more
rain falls in a week than did inthe previous 40 years.
Still continues to sell "orgone boxes". In 1955
FDA hauls his ass into court. Sentenced to a year in
jail in '56. Dies on Nov. 3rd 1957 aged 60.
