John Pistelli
author of The Ecstasy of Michaela
"He has been a sick man all his life. He was always a seeker after something in the world that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all."
…we should not be deceived by all the Constitutions framed throughout the world since the French Revolution, the Codes written and revised, a whole continual and clamorous legislative activity: these were the forms that made an essentially normalizing power acceptable.
The fact that so many things were able to change in the sexual behavior of Western societies without any of the promises or political conditions predicted by [Wilhelm] Reich being realized is sufficient proof that this whole sexual “revolution,” this whole “antirepressive” struggle, represented nothing more, but nothing less—and its importance is undeniable—than a tactical shift and reversal in the great deployment of sexuality.
