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Came here to post this. Here's more info about it: From YouTube description: "The music video, directed by Julian Doyle, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kat
by labrador 2y ago
Came here to post this. Here's more info about it:
From YouTube description: "The music video, directed by Julian Doyle, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush. The video features Canadian actor Donald Sutherland playing the role of Wilhelm Reich, and Bush playing the part of his young son, Peter."
From Wikipedia: "Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy."
"Following two critical articles about him in The New Republic and Harper's in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, calling them "fraud of the first magnitude". Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
- dang 2y agoI've got to resist the temptation to go on about Reich again but he's one of the more fascinating characters for sure: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20reich&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., and his influence is greater than people realize. He hasn't been written out of history completely, but he's in limbo, probably because of the many taboos he broke. He was the only person whose books were burned by the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Americans (as you correctly point out).
- labrador 2y ago> He was the only person whose books were burned by the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Americans Wow, that's got to be a record. I'm going to take a deeper look. I've done breathwork, but didn't know it came from Reich.
- dang 2y agoIt's fascinating stuff and way out of the mainstream, and yet his influences (e.g. bodywork, breathwork) have gotten more mainstream at the same time. Kind of a paradox.
- euroderf 2y agoIIRC... based on a journal kept by Reich's son as he was withdrawing from painkillers in a Swiss hospital after a motorcycle crash.