Tension & Pleasure - W. Reich

In this episode we begin the deep dive in the work of one Wilhelm Reich, Austrian doctor of Medicine and psychoanalyst who was a student of Freud. What Reich wanted to understand was the body, why you might escape or subdue it and why it remains an untapped source of joy and power. We discuss his ideas on the psyche and soma, repression and its effects on our personalities, the physical manifestations of emotions, TMJ, suppression and rumination, tension juxtaposed to pleasure and getting cut off from one's source of joy.