Mailer’s Use of Wilhelm Reich

Authors

Wilhelm Reich, orgone accumulator, “The White Negro”, the hipster, psychoanalysis, Beat Generation

An examination of the importance of Wilhelm Reich to the work of Norman Mailer.

Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida

Andrew M. Gordon is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Florida and Vice-President of the PsyArt Foundation, for which he organizes the annual International Conference on Psychology and the Arts. He taught in the University of Florida programs in Paris and Rome and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Spain, Portugal, and Serbia, a Visiting Professor in Russia, Hungary, and Argentina, and a keynote speaker at conferences in Japan, South Korea, and Egypt. Professor Gordon is author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer; Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg; and, with Hernan Vera, of Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness, with Peter Rudnytsky, he edited Psychoanalyses/Feminisms.