Declare Books As Listen, Little Man!

Original Title:	Rede an den kleinen mann
ISBN:	0374504016 (ISBN13: 9780374504014)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n79-39823

Listen, Little Man! Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

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Title	:	Listen, Little Man!
Author	:	Wilhelm Reich
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1974 by Noonday/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (NYC) (first published 1946)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Politics. Classics. Writing. Essays

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Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted. Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.

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I did not know of Reich until perhaps a couple of weeks ago, when a dear friend suggested it to me saying that she had loved reading it. I can now understand why. In such little space, Reich has talked about human potential and possibility whilst also berating the Little Man and Woman for destroying that very potential. He knocks the Littles down, only in expectation that they will come to think, love, and live for themselves as he asks them to. I do not know how this book fits into Reich's

There was some unnecessary fat shaming and spinster-phobia (is that even a thing?).However, I do recognize that this was written by a very bitter man, who had some otherwise constructive things to say, so I would encourage most people to read it.

Reading this book, you really can sense Reich's anger towards the world. It is fantastic. Although the book is written in a very incoherent manner, one can really sense his frustruation. Read this book years ago, and I can easily say that it was the most life-changing experience... He gave me the courage to stand up to my true self- and I guess, partly that is due to the tone of the book. That said the whole sexual orgone box theory is totally nuts... but amusing, nevertheless. I was going to

I am torn. On one side I can relate to author being different, and thus being "rejected" by little man (society) because of his differences. I can also relate to the theory of "sexual repression" which creates psychological problems. Yet, there is too much generalization. I am sure there were people who could relate, perhaps not as many as author wishes. Overall agree with everything said. World is not ready for prophets. Change comes but slowly, and sex is still a taboo. Wonder why? In

2 ** What a nightmare. He verbally attacks everybody and supposedly exposes how rotten the contemporary human being is. Uncomfortable and unnerving.

Looking for a sustained rant of 130ish pages? This may be your book. Wilhelm Reich was a noted psychoanalyst and Austrian MD, lauded in Sigmund Freud's inner circle for the concept of character armour, i.e. people closing up and dealing with only a slice of the incoming sense data about the world in order to protect themselves, becoming an expert in that slice, and sniping from within the protection of that narrow fetishization of the world.Later on, he fell out of favour with Freud when he

Under the pretext of showing the Little Man, the Common, Petty Man the error of living trivially, Wilhelm Reich has written an incoherent portrait of a society that persecutes the enlightened, or Great Man in an attempt to defend the legitimacy of his much-criticized "research." He comes from a position of hatred for the contents of the minds of most men and claims to have complete separation from it, then offers the reader the same like an egomaniacal door-to-door salesman. It gets clear as the