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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Epigraph
Preface to the Third Edition
Glossary
I DEOLOGY AS A M ATERIAL F ORCE
The cleavage
Economic and ideological structure of the German society, 1928–1933
How mass psychology sees the problem
The social function of sexual repression
T HE A UTHORITARIAN I DEOLOGY OF THE F AMILY IN THE M ASS P SYCHOLOGY OF F ASCISM
Führer and mass structure
Hitler’s background
On the mass psychology of the lower middle class
Family ties and nationalistic feelings
Nationalistic self-confidence
The “domestication” of the industrial workers
T HE R ACE T HEORY
Its contents
The objective and subjective functions of ideology
Racial purity, blood poisoning, and mysticism
T HE S YMBOLISM OF THE S WASTIKA
T HE S EX- E CONOMIC P RESUPPOSITIONS OF THE A UTHORITARIAN F AMILY
O RGANIZED M YSTICISM AS AN I NTERNATIONAL A NTI- S EXUAL O RGANIZATION
The interest in the church
The fight against “cultural Bolshevism”
The appeal to mystical feelings
The goal of the cultural revolution in the light of fascist reaction
S EX -E CONOMY IN THE F IGHT A GAINST M YSTICISM
The three basic elements of religious feeling
Anchoring of religion by means of sexual anxiety
Healthy and neurotic self-confidence
S OME Q UESTIONS OF S EX -P OLITICAL P RACTICE
Theory and practice
The struggle against mysticism until now
Sexual happiness contra mysticism
The individual uprootment of the religious feeling
The practice of sex-economy and objections to it
The nonpolitical man
T HE M ASSES AND THE S TATE
1936: Speak the truth—but how & when?
“What takes place in the masses of people?”
The “socialist yearning”
The “withering away of the state”
The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Eighth Party Congress, 1919)
The “introduction of Soviet democracy”
The development of the apparatus of the authoritarian state from rational social relationships
The social function of state capitalism
B IOSOCIAL F UNCTION OF W ORK
The problem of “voluntary work discipline”
G IVE R ESPONSIBILITY TO V ITALLY N ECESSARY W ORK !
What is “work-democracy”?
What is new in work-democracy?
T HE B IOLOGIC M ISCALCULATION IN THE H UMAN S TRUGGLE FOR F REEDOM
Our interest in the development of freedom
Biologic rigidity, incapacity for freedom, and mechanical authoritarian view of life
The arsenal of human freedom
O N N ATURAL W ORK -D EMOCRACY
Investigation of the natural social forces for the purpose of overcoming the emotional plague
Work in contrast to politics
Notes on objective criticism and irrational caviling
Work is inherently rational
Vitally necessary and other work
Notes
Index
Also by Wilhelm Reich
Copyright
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