Reichism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English Reich Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Reichism From Reich + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The philosophy or beliefs of controversial Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich.
I include in this group particularly the writers, Erich Fromm (1941, 1947, 1956, 1962), Theodor Adomo and Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1950), none of whom has championed Reichism.
1973, Paul L. Adams, Obsessive children: a sociopsychiatric study, page 23:In the mid-1960s, Reichism was midwifed into reexistence by such stalwarts as William Schutz, Bernard Gunther, Charlotte Selver, Alexander Lowen, Ida Rolf, and many other exponents of human knead needs.
2013, Jon Carlson, William Knaus, Albert Ellis Revisited, →ISBN, page 288:First, there was Trotskyism - political Communism - and immediately after that - political psychological Reichism.
1998, Chaim Shur, Shomrim in the Land of Apartheid: The Story of Hashomer Hatzair in South Africa 1935-1970:As Edward Shils commented, “If there's a bad idea out there—Trotskyism, Reichism, Steinerism—leave it to our friend Saul to swallow it.”
2013, Gloria L. Cronin, Lee Trepanier, A Political Companion to Saul Bellow, →ISBN, page 9: