POETRY MONDAY: September 5, 2011 Labor Day: A Celebration and Elegy

Irene Willis

It may seem strange to offer up a sad song on a day that should be all celebration. This yearly national holiday, the first Monday in September, was created to honor the achievements of American workers, and yet they and their rights are under attack now as seldom before in our memory. That is, if they are lucky enough to have jobs. If they are unemployed, they may even be targets of a new kind of discrimination. Many job listings currently advertise: “No unemployed will be considered.” Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 5, 2011 Labor Day: A Celebration and Elegy

Unsexed Reich by Nathan Szajnberg

Unsexed Reich.
N. Szajnberg, MD 9-3-11
Sex sells, still. Psychotic sex even better. And if you can screw psychoanalysis while reviewing a sex book, maybe improves the Amazon ratings. How’s this for an eyeball grabber:

“Slice them where you will, any collection of psychoanalysts is as mad as a parliament. Novelty beards, whirling eyes, twitches, deranged clothing, tics, jitters and habits you wouldn’t want to go into. But Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was the maddest of the lot”

That’s the opening to a review of “Adventures in the Orgasmatron:
Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex,” by Turner.

Click Here to Read: Novelty Acts The sexual revolutions before the sexual revolution.by Ariel Levy in the New Yorker on September 19, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Other Reviews of this Book on this website.

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