Ola Raknes

4) His Contribution to Psychoanalysis:

Ola Raknes was constantly looking for ways to improve therapeutic methods. He was also unsatisfied with traditional psychoanalytical explanations for man’s basic instincts, drives, and aggression. Additionally, he was dubious of Freud’s psychological dualism of these opposing basic drives, which initially moved between the instinct for sexuality and self-preservation and later between the life instinct (Eros) and the death instinct (Thanatos). Ola Raknes first heard the name Wilhelm Reich while he was living in Berlin, but it would be years before he really read anything by Reich. His studies of Freud and other “traditional” psychoanalysts were still very active.

After Reich’s book Charakteranalyse was published in 1933, Ola Raknes started to seriously consider following Reich’s teachings. After finishing that book, Raknes immersed himself in Reich’s Zeitschrift für politische Psychologie und Sexualökonomie, followed by Reich’s essays in numerous psychoanalytical magazines. Ola Raknes found it all to be really fascinating and insightful, but this did not prompt him to alter either his fundamental beliefs or his psychotherapy approach.

At the gathering of Scandinavian psychoanalysts in Oslo over Easter in 1934, Ola Raknes first encountered Wilhelm Reich. This strong personality greatly struck Raknes, and the clarity with which he presented himself during discussions of the core ideas of the issues he explored and, in his presentations, helped Raknes get a better grasp of many things. The psychoanalytical theories of Freud served as Wilhelm Reich’s starting point, but as early as 1925, he began developing his theory of sex economy based on observations made while working as a volunteer at his Vienna counselling centre for people with sexual problems. This work would continue until 1938.

Raknes’ first preference would have been to start an apprenticeship in therapy with Reich right away, but he lacked the means to get to Sweden, where Reich was working at the time. In any case, they reconnected in Luzern, Switzerland, in August of the same year during the 13th psychoanalytical congress. There, Ola Raknes passionately fought the exclusion of Reich from the International Psychoanalytical Association along with the two other Norwegian participants, child psychiatrist Nic. Hoel and psychology professor Harald Schjelderup (who would later change her name to Nic. Waal).

Later during the convention, the Norwegian delegation received approval as a separate group, allowing them to accept Reich as a member. However, Wilhelm Reich declined the invitation to join when he relocated to Norway later in 1934. Raknes was working as an apprentice therapist at the time with Otto Fenichel, who he considered to be a friend and colleague of Reich’s. He had stated to Fenichel right away that if Reich was in Norway, he would visit him.

Reich started a character analysis seminar soon after his arrival in Norway. Despite not having undertaken any such analysis himself, Raknes was admitted to this. On a few of his patients that he applied the procedures he had acquired, the outcomes were generally positive. Raknes asked Wilhelm Reich if he would accept him for apprentice therapy in the fall of 1936 due to both personal issues and the belief that Reich’s therapeutic approach was far more effective than the standard Freudian technique he had thus far used.

Reich was unsure and thought Ola Raknes was a little too old and armoured, but he eventually agreed. One of the first patients to whom Reich continuously employed his novel method — which he called characteranalytic vegetotherapy—was likely Ola Raknes. Raknes’ extensive character remodelling, or apprentice therapy, took over three years, three sessions per week, and was laborious owing to his advanced age. He sometimes questioned whether he would ever be able to complete the work he still believed he was designed to perform in a way he would be satisfied with. If he couldn’t manage that, there wouldn’t even be a purpose to live.

But after a long duration of time, he eventually noticed that the energies began to manifest; he also began to notice what was happening inside of his own body and what it would be like to be operating freely. He was surprised by how characteranalytic vegetotherapy and conventional psychoanalysis differed fundamentally. He had studied Reich’s book on character analysis and had used the approach on his patients, but having it work on his own body was a very different experience. In contrast to classical psychoanalysis, the technique was now expanded to include character interpretation, body posture, and the direct manipulation of somatic blockings.

Ola Raknes

5) His Legacy:

Ola Raknes discusses every facet of this contentious topic, including the liberation of sexual energy, the nature of functional thinking, mind-body functional identity, the four-beat orgasm formula, and the impact of life energy on religion, education, medicine, and psychology, among many other topics. Additionally, his own memories give an unexpectedly intimate layer. Raknes was one of the few people who was still devoted to Reich and who had his entire trust at the time of his passing. Raknes’ close collaboration with Reich and subsequent monitoring of every advancement in orgonomic research give Wilhlem Reich and Orgonomy a significant place in both the framework of Reich’s own works and the field of modern studies of life energy.

Some examples of a rational interest in cloudbusting might include:

* A health professional who notes the negative influences of certain stagnated weather conditions upon the health and behavior of his family, friends, neighbors and town.

* A farmer or agricultural scientist who notes the devastation of drought upon the landscape.

* Any contactful individual who is personally distressed by recurring episodes of atmospheric stagnation and air pollution, or drought and wildfires.

* An atmospheric scientist or other researcher who wishes to better understand the dynamics of the atmospheric ocean, or the phenomenon of drought and heat-wave.

Obviously, not all of the above persons should go out and build or use a cloudbuster, but the sources of their interest are rational. They may simply be unaware of the potential effects and range of influence of the instrument, or be ignorant of the personal health-hazards involved.

http://www.orgonelab.org/sobuildaclb.htm
JD—1989, ed.2010

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