In fact, Capitalism's perfection of all previous hierarchy to objectify/thingify "the authentic" amongst "the organic" as mediator, invertor, and owner of those processes is a rite that we had best supersede from human practice lest we choose to extinguish our species and its moments, and possibilities.
Subjectivity implies explicit self-management.
That is both a negation and an affirmation. Mere negation — clutching a "zero"-state — fails to supersede. The "affirmation" or "new world" is created via the generalized "management of selves" directly by those selves. All attempts to re-introduce hierarchy are the old world reforming itself in doubt, fear and the falsification which creates them both
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Given the social-historical context of hierarchical rule, this "top-down" rule is a rule OVER, and not by any stretch BY, affirming any kind of concrete humanity. That we have what we have is certainly no 'reason' why we have it, as hysterical materialists are want to repeat over and over.
It is pathos formalized.
The inversion of human sexuality — like all other human expression and experience — is minimally described as "pornography". That includes the core Nazi SA's [inverted sexual] use of "femme" men and boys by its "butch" members, the "daddy"-"boi" hierarchical 'relationships' being consecrated into Capital's law today, the circumcizing of males into numbified soldier-men, the genital mutilization conducted by Judaism and its fellow religio-triad team, and the subjugation of females in everyday life. The State of inverted sex is the State of Capital internalized. The exchange-value of sex is only "valuable" insofar as its "use-value" is mined-away (as in it's no longer mine) from its human creators and has any possibility of direct experience inverted into lifestyled "experience", that universalizing commodity form.
"More sex, less sects", at first, sounds an appropriate counter, yet, we hear the voices of Capital calling for further-extractive implementations, allowed by its very abstractness, as they really mean "more objectified sex", and certainly of the mediated-regulated-measured-propertied-quantified versus the self-regulated-qualified experience.
Any consequential movement of Sex-Pol is one that 'challenges all politics' as [self-]POWER surrendered/extracted, inverted, weaponized, and wielded OVER humanity, that challenges the falsification of "rights" into the "rites" by, of, and for generalized thingification.
'Virulent Hierarchy' — that consecration of a kidnapped essense of humanity — with all of its clericized roles and behaviors, ought be challenged, else we merely and meekly [re-]produce our evolving demise... until the "authentic we" finally and forever freezes in the headlights of the "inverted us", that is, our inverted reflection.
The experiences of my own childhood, with all of the array of mores ricocheting at me across time and space, the somatic therapies I've tried, and the works I've read through which I sought to explain its fear of me experiencing myself, and the repossession of what once was not represented in inverted lure, have sadly and rarely been discussed on ANY "Reichian" lists. Certainly, 99% of "post-"/"neo-" Reichian therapists avoid discussing it as they camp near the guarded encampments of the well-to-do (Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Marin County, ad nauseam), and cower at the notion of "free" sessions.
Meanwhile, the diversionaries keep boiling away Reich's socio-critical views of current social relations by pretending its "off topic", as if living and de-thingification 4are silly. So, also with the falsifiers of Karx Marx's critiques of alienation, all those liars calling themselves Leninists, Trotskyites, Stalinists, and other military-clad fearers of a free humanity.
Left? Right?
Two sides of the same authoritarian mouth... two co-dependently thrown punches to our jaw.
So much for that 'false dichotomous' noise!
Anyone for taking Reich's implementations past the point of their continued-to-current imprisonment?!
How about more than engaging timewasters and other agents of stasis?!
Maybe we can reappropriate Reich's verve even while the blab and drone of fools attempts to enslumber us.
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Resources and references:
- see the writings (and projects) by Dr. Eva Reich, esp. "Memories of Eva Reich" at http://judythweaver.com/writings/memories-of-eva-reich/, Richard Overly's Butterfly Touch Massage (2005), and "A Brief History of Gentle Bio-Energetics" at http://www.gentlebio-energetics.com/about.htm;
- see an introductory touch upon the works of Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, et. al. in Professor Russell Jacoby's The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the political Freudians (1983);
- see Dr. Wilhelm Reich's own works, Children of the Future and The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality;
- see chapter 10 ("The Roots of Pleasure") in Dr. Alexander Lowen's "Pleasure: A Creative Approacch to Life" (1970);
- see chapter 7 ("... Or the Social Function of Sexual Repression") in Professor Bertell Ollman's Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich (1979);
- see chapter 3 ("The Sickness of Society: The Growth of Sexual Politics") and chapter 8 ("Free Growth: Towards Work-democracy and Self-regulation") in David Boadella's Wilhelm Reich: The Evolution of His Work (1973);
- see additional views at hhttp://www.point-of-departure.org/Point-Of-Departure/Point-Of-Departure-entry.htm#SexPol and http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/SexPol/SexPol.htm.
