Listen, Little Man!

by Reich, Wilhelm; Steig, William; Manheim, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780374504014
• ISBN10: 0374504016
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-01-01
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

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. Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many other works includeThe Function of the Orgasm,Character Analysis, andThe Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957. 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, this book tells how Reich perceivedat first innocently, then with amazement, and finally with horrorwhat the Little Man does to himself. This is a book about how the Little Man suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; and 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 asks us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our livesand for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.

Author Biography

Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many other works include The Function of the Orgasm, Character Analysis, and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957.