Bernie Sanders on Sex, Cancer and revolution and ....
Interesting read:
"Sanders was initially drawn to Sigmund Freud and his theories as a high
school student in Brooklyn. He then studied psychology at the University
of Chicago and at the New School for Social Research in New York. And
he worked at a mental institution in New York City before settling in
Vermont for good in 1968. Like many lefties of his time, he was heavily
influenced by the Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich, a disciple of
Freud whose work drew a connection between sexual repression and
fascism. When Paris student demonstrators took the street in that year,
they held up copies of Reich’s book."
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"In a 1969 essay for the Freeman called “Cancer, Disease and
Society,” Sanders, then 28, contended that conformity caused cancer by
breaking down the human spirit and inflicting emotional trauma. He
quoted liberally from Reich’s 1948 book, The Cancer Biopathy,
which, he noted, was “very definite about the link between emotional and
sexual health, and cancer,” and he walked readers through Reich’s
theory about the consequences of suppressing “biosexual excitation.”
.......
" All aspects of life are intimately related—and it is only a
schizophrenic society such as ours which segregates them and puts them
into separate little boxes. We go to school and study ‘education’ and
‘psychology’ and ‘sexuality’ (if it’s a ‘progressive’ school). How
absurd: all of life is one and if we want to know, for example, how our
nation can napalm children in Vietnam—AND NOT CARE—it is necessary to go
well beyond ‘politics.’ We have got to get into the areas of feeling
and emotion, pain and love—and how people related to each other and how
people shut off their feelings. And all of this takes us way back to our
mommies and to the way they dealt with us when we were infants."
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