Abstract Quote by Laurence Galian

“He [Wilhelm Reich] challenged the puritanical ideas about sexuality in our culture. In laywoman terms, Reich believed humans store emotions in our muscles. During…

— Inga Muscio

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of…

— Sigmund Freud

“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the…

— Audre Lorde

“An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,”…

— Gay Talese

“Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as…

— E.B. White

“All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.”

— Gian Kumar

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“Each of us is allowed to revel in our own desires, no matter how dark or depraved they may seem; for we are the…

— K. Kiker

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove…

— Vernon Howard

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of…

— Erik Pevernagie