Wilhelm Reich

From The God That Failed, 1950
( by Arthur Koestler )

. . . Among other members of our cell I remember Dr. Wilhelm Reich, Founder and Director of the Sex-Pol. (Institute for Sexual Politics). He was a Freudian Marxist; inspired by Malinowski, he had just published a book called The Function of the Orgasm, in which he expounded the theory that the sexual frustration of the Proletariat caused a thwarting of its political consciousness; only through a full, uninhibited release of the sexual urge could the working-class realize its revolutionary potentialities and historic mission; the whole thing was less cock-eyed than it sounds. After the victory of Hitler, Reich published a brilliant psychological study of the Nazi mentality, which the Party condemned; he broke with Communism and is now director of a scientific research institute in the U. S. A. . . .

The god that failed / Richard Crossman, editor ;
with a new foreword by David C. Engerman.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2001, p. 43.
( Originally published: London : Hamilton, 1950. ISBN 0231123957 )