Reich Freudianism Marxist Thought And Its Impact

By elaborating and analyzing Wilhelm Reich's Freudian Marxism thinking, this paper expounds the idea of Reich's thinking, and then discusses its outstanding pioneering contribution and the important influence to other Freudian Marxism thinkers.Firstly, the idea of Reich's Freudian Marxism thinking is to achieve the consistency and complementarity between the Freudian and the Marxism on the basis of dialogue and integration, which takes the way by the dialogue and the integration of the category, the theory and the method. Secondly, he integrated the sex with social economy, politics, and revolution, and so on, thereby on the basis of the sexual instinct theory, he created the character analysis theory and Sexual revolution theory, supplemented the ideology theory of the Marxism, and discussed the psychological foundation for Fascist building, also criticized the Soviet Union's socialistic revolutionary strategy and so on. Thirdly, Reich created outstanding pioneering contribution to the Freudian Marxism, deeply influenced the other Freudian Marxism thinkers, especially Marcuse and Fromm and Habermas. Of course, there are Utopian colors in the theory of Wilhelm Reich, and in some parts there are also some misunderstandings and distortions with Marxism and other shortages, but some of Wilhelm Reich,s ideas and theories are still flickering, which are still valuable and worthy to us who live today.