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Original title Charakteranalyse Pages 545 Originally published 1933 Page count 545 | 4/5 Goodreads Media type Print ISBN 0-374-50980-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Originally German, translated into English Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Similar Works by Wilhelm Reich, Psychoanalysis books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Character Analysis (German: Charakteranalyse) is a 1933 book by Wilhelm Reich.
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Background
Reich finished the manuscript in January 1933. He submitted it to the Psychoanalytic Press in Vienna, presided over by Sigmund Freud, who initially accepted it for publication. However, Freud cancelled the contract, wanting to distance himself from Reich's politics. Reich borrowed money and published the book privately in Vienna.
Summary
Reich argues that character structures were organizations of resistance with which individuals avoided facing their neuroses: different character structures - whether schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic or rigid - were sustained biologically as body types by unconscious muscular contraction.
Reception
Harry Guntrip wrote that Freud's The Ego and the Id only gained practical importance when Reich's Character Analysis and Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence were published, as these books first placed ego-analysis at the centre of psychoanalytic therapy. Character Analysis is referenced in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.