Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in twentieth-century intellectual history provoke as much fascination and controversy as Wilhelm Reich — the radical psychoanalyst, orgone energy theorist, and political revolutionary whose life ended in an American federal prison. Fury on Earth chronicles the full arc of Reich's extraordinary and turbulent existence, from his early discipleship under Sigmund Freud to his pioneering work on character analysis, sexual economy, and the biological basis of human neurosis, painting an intimate and unflinching portrait of a man perpetually at war with the world around him. Written by Myron Sharaf, one of Reich's closest students and a trained psychologist in his own right, this biography draws on personal recollection, archival research, and psychological insight to present the most authoritative account of Reich's life ever committed to print. Sharaf does not shy away from the contradictions that defined his subject — the visionary brilliance alongside the paranoia, the intellectual courage alongside the personal cruelty — and it is precisely this unsparing honesty that makes the book so compulsively absorbing. For anyone who has ever wondered how a man celebrated by Einstein ends up burning his own books, Fury on Earth delivers the answer with devastating clarity.
Author: Myron Sharaf
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in twentieth-century intellectual history provoke as much fascination and controversy as Wilhelm Reich — the radical psychoanalyst, orgone energy theorist, and political revolutionary whose life ended in an American federal prison. Fury on Earth chronicles the full arc of Reich's extraordinary and turbulent existence, from his early discipleship under Sigmund Freud to his pioneering work on character analysis, sexual economy, and the biological basis of human neurosis, painting an intimate and unflinching portrait of a man perpetually at war with the world around him. Written by Myron Sharaf, one of Reich's closest students and a trained psychologist in his own right, this biography draws on personal recollection, archival research, and psychological insight to present the most authoritative account of Reich's life ever committed to print. Sharaf does not shy away from the contradictions that defined his subject — the visionary brilliance alongside the paranoia, the intellectual courage alongside the personal cruelty — and it is precisely this unsparing honesty that makes the book so compulsively absorbing. For anyone who has ever wondered how a man celebrated by Einstein ends up burning his own books, Fury on Earth delivers the answer with devastating clarity.