10 quotes
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality — both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural (orgastic) sexual gratification.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
The history of science is a long unbroken chain of elaboration, deviation, and rectification, re-creation, followed by reassessment, renewed deviation and rectification, and renewed creation. It has been a long, arduous course, and we have hardly begun.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Nature and culture, instinct and morality, sexuality and achievement become incompatible as a result of the split in the human structure. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural (orgastic) sexual gratification.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)