Chapter 9 lawrence of psychology

Rick preaches sexual freedom and extols orgasms, but it's the prescription he uses to heal the shattered wounds of his life. In the intellectual world of the twentieth century, Rick is a legendary tragic figure.He rose to prominence on the European intellectual scene as a psychoanalyst and communist, but died in an American prison as a charlatan and paranoid.His life and doctrine can be said to contain the tragedy of secret and truth, crime and punishment. The most striking thing about Rick's theory is that he believes that a person's psychological and even physical pain mainly comes from the stagnation of libido energy, and sexual orgasm is the best channel to release this energy. His two important books Sexual Orgasm Both functional and personality analyzes express this view.The preaching of the philosophy of the body made him the Lawrence of psychology.

In addition to being deeply influenced by Freud, his theory also comes from personal encounters.When Rick was young, the family experienced an unfortunate change, and this change can be said to be caused by him.When he was thirteen years old, he accidentally discovered that his mother was having an affair with his tutor. The painful Rick immediately reported his mother's scandal to his father. become morose.A few years later, after knowing that his son would receive life insurance after his death, the father went to the pool to do suicide swimming in a severe winter, and died of pneumonia as a result.

His advocacy of sexual freedom and eulogizing of orgasms implicitly contained a wish to atone for the death of his parents. If it weren't for his rigid and repressed sexual concepts in his youth, how could his mother commit suicide in shame, and how could his father blatantly destroy himself? After entering the academic circle and getting acquainted with Freud, he was like a believer who was enlightened and converted. Because of his personal tragic experience, he firmly believed that sexual liberation is the real cornerstone of personal and social health.For him it was the only truth and the only secret.

He has always insisted that he is a suffering man who brings truth, but perhaps his claims have gone too far and have not resonated much, and he ended up on the road to insanity himself.