WR - Mysteries of the organism = (WR - Misterije organizma)

In Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971), 'WR' is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Reich is a 'intellectual maverick' and 'sexual pioneer', and theorist of 'Orgone energy' and 'world revolution'. Loosely inspired by Reich's 'The Function of the Orgasm' WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it is a film of ideas and sensations which speaks to the contemporary world. It was banned in Yugoslavia, under pressure from Moscow, as politically offensive. This book explores the film and how its spectators interact with it. In Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971), 'WR' is Wilhelm Reich, maverick intellectual, sexual pioneer and theorist of 'Orgone energy', but also 'world revolution'. WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film of ideas and sensations which speaks urgently to the contemporary world.Raymond Durgnat thinks that WR is an adventure playground, a 'jungle gym' which the film's spectators enter and interact with. It's intellectual cinema, and a film which prophesied the horror of the conflict and slaughter in what is now the former Yugoslavia.

The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit film is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached social improvement through sexual enlightenment. Reich is a maverick intellectual, sexual pioneer, and theorist of "Orgone energy," but also of "world revolution." By juxtaposing hippie America and Cold War Yugoslavia, Dusan Makavejev stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism.
For Raymond Durgnat WR is an adventure playground that the film's spectators enter and interact with. It's intellectual cinema, and a film that prophesied the horror of the conflict in what is now the former Yugoslavia.

"In Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971), 'WR' is Wilhelm Reich, maverick intellectual, sexual pioneer and theorist of 'Orgone energy', but also 'world revolution'. WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film of ideas and sensations which speaks urgently to the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET Cover Title Copyright Contents 1. Introduction 2. Chronicle of an Exiled Socialist 3. Production History 4. Overture 5. The Orgone Trail 6. Back in the USA, or, Communismus Interruptus 7. Yugoslavia: For and Against Fanaticism 8. Appreciations 9. Citizen Reich 10. Understanding Undergrounds 11. The Short Unhappy Life of Ex-Yugoslavia Credits Notes Bibliography The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's film 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism' is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film which speaks urgently to the contemporary world. In the BFI MODERN CLASSICS series. The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit "WR - Mysteries of the Organism" (1971), is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society.