He began as a student of Sigmund Freud, but, whereas Freud believed that sexual repression was necessary to provide the structure and driving force for civilisation, Reich believed that it was at the very heart, not only of many psychological and physical ailments, but that it is part of a destructive tendency in human behaviour which at times expresses itself through the murder of the healthiest individuals – e. The short memoir is a series of memories from Peter’s secluded childhood at Orgonon, a sprawling property in the New England where Peter spent his days roaming the countryside and serving as a soldier in his father’s war against the aliens.

The writing was at times really amazing, I would give this book a rating of five, except that the part where he becomes an aimless hip twenty something in the 60s kind of detracts. There are moments of genuine poetry in A Book of Dreams, owing to the substantial portion written from the perspective of a precocious kid. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. The later pages howl with young Reich's pain and the difficulty of coming to terms with his father: genius or madman?Wilhelm Reich studied under Sigmund Freud, who he later parted ways with due to a disagreement in their approaches to sexuality.

Reich believed his Cloudbuster could be used to fight against aliens, who he believed were attempting to destroy the Earth. Melancholic recollection of a dream and fantasy filled childhood that conflicts, jarringly, with the reality of his world and intruding memories as he comes to terms with his father's death. A Book of Dreams inspiró a Kate Bush a escribir una de las mejores canciones de los 80, por ser un libro bellísimo, narrado desde la perspectiva limpia e inocente de un niño que recuerda la vida de su padre.In his writing, Peter celebrates the love between a father and son while also exploring the trauma he faced as a result of his father's eccentric beliefs. In some ways this book reminds me of The Glass Castle in that much of it is in the voice and point of view of a young child relating the imaginative way they coped with a father who lived outside of the norm. Well, the Dad's ideas and inventions became ever more, well, worrying, including his design for a machine to burst the clouds and make it rain ("But every time it rains, you're here in my head.

He also built other devices, such as “cloudbusters”, which were supposed to direct orgone into clouds and make it rain. If you are looking for a book about Wilhem Reich or his work by someone who knew him best, this isn't it. And in the end, the book gave me the same unfinished and sad feeling as the song: that Peter can never fully get past the yearning for the magical ideals he lived in childhood, or let go of his need for the closeness he had for his father, both of which are irretrievably gone.Reich, in his books, had pointed out that mental illness was the norm and not the exception in our society and that the very structure of our civilisation is sick.