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GLOSSARY of Orgonomy terms
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Selected Writings by Wilhelm Reich
Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, copyright 1973.
A new scientific discipline must employ new terms if old ones are inapplicable.
Orgonomy introduced the following terms:
ANORGONIA. The condition of diminished or lacking orgonity (q.v.).
ARMOR. See character armor, muscular armor.
BIONS. Energy vesicles representing transitional stages between
non-living and living substance. They constantly form in nature by a process
of disintegration of inorganic and organic matter, which process it has
been possible to reproduce experimentally. They are charged with orgone
energy (q.v.), i.e., Life Energy and may develop into protozoa and
bacteria.
CHARACTER. An individual's typical structure, his stereotype
manner of acting and reacting. The orgonomic concept of character is functional
and biological, and not a static, psychological or moralistic concept.
CHARACTER-ANALYSIS Originally a modification of the customary
psychoanalytic technique of symptom analysis, by the inclusion of the character
and character resistance into the therapeutic process. However,
the discovery of the musculur armor necessitated the development
of a new technique, namely vegetotherapy. The later discovery of organismic
orgone energy ("bioenergy") and the concentration of atmospheric
orgone energy with an orgone energy accumulator necessitated the further
development of character-analytic vegetotherapy into an inclusive, biophysical
orgone therapy. (See physical and psychiatric orgone therapy.)
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CHARACTER ARMOR. The sum total of typical character attitudes,
which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations,
resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness."
Functionally identical with the muscular armor.
CHARACTER, GENITAL. The un-neurotic character structure, which
does not suffer from sexual stasis and, therefore, is capable of natural
self-regulation on the basis of orgastic potency.
CHARACTER, NEUROTIC. The character which, due to chronic bioenergetic
stasis operates according to the principle of compulsive moral regulation.
EMOTIONAL PLAGUE. The neurotic character in destructive action
on the social scene.
MUSCULAR ARMOR. The sum total of the muscular attitudes (chronic
muscular spasms) which an individual develops as a block against the breakthrough
of emotions and organ sensations, in particular anxiety, rage, and sexual
excitation.
ORGASM. The unitary involuntary convulsion of the total organism
at the acme of the genital embrace. This reflex, because of its involuntary
character and the prevailing orgasm anxiety, is blocked in most humans
of civilizations which suppress infantile and adolescent genitality.
ORGASTIC IMPOTENCE. The absence of orgastic potency. It is the
most important characteristic of the average human of today, and by damming
up biological (orgone) energy in the organism provides the source of energy
for all kinds of biopathic symptoms and social irrationalism.
ORGASTIC POTENCY. Essentially, the capacity for complete surrender
to the involuntary convulsion of the organism and complete discharge
of the excitation at the acme of the genital embrace. It is always lacking
in neurotic individuals. It presupposes the presence or establishment of
the genital character, i.e. absence of a pathological character armor and
muscular armor. Orgastic potency is usually not distinguished from erective
and ejaculative potency, both of which are only prerequisites of orgastic
potency.
ORGONE ENERGY. Primordial Cosmic Energy; universally present
and demonstrable visually, thermically, electroscopically and by means
of Geiger-Mueller counters. In the living organism: Bio-energy, Life
Energy. Discovered by Wilhelm Reich between 1936 and 1940.
ORANUR denotes orgone energy in a state of excitation induced
by nuclear energy. (DOR denotes Deadly OR energy.)
ORGONE THERAPY.
Physical Orgone Therapy: Application of physical orgone energy
concentrated in an orgone energy accumulator to inorease the natural bio-energetic
resistance of the organism against disease.
Psychiatric Orgone Therapy: Mobilization of the orgone energy
in the organism, i.e. the liberation of biophysical emotions from muscular
and character armorings with the goal of establishing, if possible, orgastic
potency.
ORGONITY. The condition of containing orgone energy; the quantity
of orgone energy contained.
ORGONOMETRY. Quantitative orgonomic research.
ORGONOMIC ( "ENERGETIC" ) FUNCTIONALISM. The functional
thought technique which guides clinical and experimental orgone research.
The guiding principle is that of the identity of variations in their
common functioning principle (CFP). This thought technique grew in the
course of the study of human character formation and led to the discovery
of the functional organismic and cosmic orgone energy, thereby proving
itself to be the correct mirroring of both living and non-living basic
natural processes.
ORGONOMY. The natural science of the cosmic orgone energy.
ORGONOTIC. Qualities concerning the orgonity of a system or a
condition.
SEX-ECONOMY. The body of knowledge within Orgonomy which deals
with the economy of the biological (orgone) energy in the organism, with
its energy household.
STASIS. The damming-up of Life Energy in the organism, thus the
source of energy for biopathy and irrationalism.
STASIS ANXIETY. The anxiety caused by the stasis of sexual energy
in the center of the organism when its peripheral orgastic discharge is
inhibited.
STASIS NEUROSIS. All somatic disturbances which are the immediate
result of the stasis of sexual energy, with stasis anxiety at its core.
WORK DEMOCRACY. The functioning of the natural and intrinsically
rational work relationships between human beings. The concept of work democracy
represents the established reality (not the ideology) of these relationships
which, though usually distorted because of prevailing armoring and irrational
political ideologies, are nevertheless at the basis of all social achievement.
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