Wilhelm Reich & the Frankfurt School?

Ralph Dumain rdumain at igc.org
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:57:41 -0400


I have a couple of more installments to write on Horkheimer's "Traditional 
and Critical Theory", which is in the main quite admirable, with lacunae to 
be addressed later on.

In the meantime, perhaps someone could remind me if there was ever 
communication between or even commentary linking Wilhelm Reich to any of 
the Frankfurters?  Reich's later deterioration into crackpot vitalism is 
interesting for the lessons it unintentionally teaches, even though it 
doesn't have the positive features of his early work.