EVERYBODY

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic right s are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of t he renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and s exual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and t ravellin...[Read more]