*The most famous of which is shown on the book jacket reproduced on this page-an up‐pointing arrow that splits into two opposing arrows. Reich's appeal to American youth is a bit more manifold. Therein lies his appeal to European youth, who feel more constrained by author itarian family structures than by political institutions.
Where Freud had urged rational sublimation and adaptation, and Marx political revolution, Reich advocated the dis solution of the patriarchal family and the authority of the father. Less cerebral than Marcuse, the other well‐known exponent of the Freudian left, Reich amalgamated Freud and Marx and created‐ a credo that was action‐oriented and at once anti‐in tellectual and anti‐political. Many American young people are now discovering that Reich is very much their kind of revolutionary, too. In Berlin, student members of free‐living‐and loving communes pelted police with softbound copies of Reich's “The Mass Psychology of Fascism.” Reich, who died in an American prison in 1957 and who had been expelled from the psychoanalytic movement for his political involvements, was being resurrected everywhere in Europe as a hero/saint to students demanding social reform. In Paris, Reichian sym bols* depicting the human conflicts produced by societal repression of sexuality were crudely painted on the walls of the Sorbonne. DURING the student revolts that shook many European univer sities in the spring of 1968, the influence of the errant psycho analyst, Wilhelm Reich, was much in evidence.
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