Reich’s interest in improving psychoanalytic technique led him to view character as a form of resistance to the emergence of unconscious feelings, memories and impulses.
He called character analysis the approach centered on a person’s habitual ways of reacting to the world. Clinical work progressively revealed the role of the musculature and the autonomic nervous system: the so-called muscular armor, correlated with character armor.
From these observations, character analysis developed into vegetotherapy. Further research into sexuality, orgasm and the energy Reich called orgone eventually led to the formulation of medical orgone therapy and orgonomy.
“Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.”
On this site, the path is presented through three connected areas: clinical practice, the study of biological and physical manifestations, and the observation of social phenomena.
