Norman Mailer

From Orgone Accumulator to Cancer Protection for Schizophrenics

Authors

  • Maureen O’Neill Hooker Author

Keywords:

cancer and psychology, stress and disease, mind-body medicine, schizophrenia and cancer, orgone accumulator, emotion and illness

Abstract

Cancer is a recurring theme in Mailer’s fiction. He believed that malignancy begins with a single defective cell that attacks a healthy body from inside. Mailer believed that spontaneous action requires courage, a feeling synonymous with guts and bravery and audacity. He also believed that the failure to act, or the failure of a courageous attempt to act, causes cancer.

Author Biography

  • Maureen O’Neill Hooker

    Maureen O’Neill Hooker experienced an early love of reading that led to a desire to write, which remained unexpressed for more than forty years. After a fulfilling life of marriage, children, grandchildren, and work she went back to school. She is a recent MFA graduate from Wilkes University, where she became interested in Norman Mailer. She is currently living her dream and for the past three years she has been writing her first novel.

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Articles