Orgonomy's main
discovery was the orgastic pulsation of alive plasma. The true
beginning of any disturbance, psychic or physical, is the alteration of
this vital pulse.
As stated in the first part of this study on sexual disfunctions (Orur
n°43) we came up with:
"Psychic health depends on the
orgastic power, this is, on the release capacity at sexual excitation
acme during natural sexual intercourse. Its foundation is the
non-neurotic attitude of love capacity.
"The orgastic power would then
be considered, the reference health parameter.
"In the case of the orgastic
impotence, suffered by an enormous majority of human beings, the
biological energy is blocked and it becomes the source of most
different manifestations of irrational conducts and pathologies in
general. Sexual energy not fully discharged during a sexual intercourse
is accumulated in the body,in organs, and creates a libidinal stasis
that constitutes the somatic-energetic nucleus of neuroses.
"Psychic disorders cure
requires, in first term, the reestablishment of the natural love
capacity. This depends both on social and psychic conditions.
These statements
have been valid throughout the years in order to understand and
approach the disease from an holistic and functional point of view.
However, are they still valid nowadays?, is it possible to maintain the
orgastic power as the reference health parameter despite of energetic
changes occurred during the last decade?, which characteristics are
observed on sexual repression nowadays?
In the article on SAFA
(Orur n°39) we asked ourselves about spontaneous disarmouring. This
fact, proved by the orgonomic clinic, led us to review very important
issues like the relationship between the sexual repression and the
organic capacity to maintain it; this is, the possibility of chronic
blockades permanence, as described by Reich in
his definition of different characters.
In our daily therapeutic
work we found that too rigid people maintained their armour, as
reported by Reich, although with a new particularitity: stiffness was
increased to a point that led the organism to a crisis situation, being
this one the main reason for consultation. In other words, the armour
had reached its peak expression and demanded a resolution.
Meanwhile, sensations on people
with more flexibility were increased to the point of becoming
intolerable, and in most cases, preventing them from a proper contact
with the environment. In the rest of the cases, we faced an abrupt
dismantling of the blockades in spontaneous way (SAFA)
Reich's concept of armour
stratification was the starting point for the discussions that helped
us understand what was happening. Broadly speaking, human beings would
consist of three layers:
"In the surface he wears
the artificial mask of selfcontrol, the compulsive and false
kindness of artificial sociality. This covers the second layer, the "freudian unconscious" where the sadism, greed, lewdness, envy, perversions of all kind,
etc., remain subject, without loosing none of their power. This second
layer is the consequence of a culture that denies sexuality; at
conscious level, it is only experienced like an abysmal inner
emptiness. Behind this second layer and in the depths, the natural
sociality and sexuality live and operate, the spontaneous enjoyment of
work, the ability to love. That third and deep layer, that represents
the biological nucleus of human structure, is unconscious and very
feared." 1
There were no doubts that
the human armouring had been able to remain stable thanks to environmental conditions,
and now were precisely those conditions that were changing. Climate
change, known by all, represented a modification at global level of
unusual outcomes.
This
environmental modification implied a readjustment, a re-structuration
that jeopardized the whole organism. It was obvious that the armour
structure began to crack, and would do it from the most superficial, ie
from the artificial self-control mask, with the collapse of Ego's
defenses, disclousing those secondary impulses of the "freudian
unconscious", mobilizing personal history contents and invading the
body with sensations.
This
understanding led us to redefine concepts and parameters, to review the
health and disease criteria and to rethink sexuality within a new
context. These working hypotheses will be exhibited in the next issue.
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1 Wilhelm Reich, "La
funcion del Orgasmo" ("The Function of the
Orgasm"). Editorial Paidós, 1974, pag. 184
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