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Even the counterculture that embraced Reich, not least William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer, and filmmaker Dusan Makavejev, tended to distort his theory. The psychosis attached to Reich by his detractors was the culmination of decades of scapegoating by psychoanalysts, Nazis, communists, and conservatives. But Reich's environmental and Cold War preoccupations and his slow-burning fascination with UFO phenomena were not signs of a madness incipient since his break with Sigmund Freud. They anticipated and reflected much in the American psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefining the presence of a cinematic self in the misunderstood analyst once considered an heir to Freud, \u003ci\u003eWilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers\u003c\/i\u003e rejects orthodox portrayals of Reich's final years as merely pathological. Combining original analysis and evidence from the Wilhelm Reich Archive, James Reich uncovers the fatal moments in the psychologist's uncanny identification with the spaceman, and the myth of a scientist lost to his own grandiosity and paranoia. Taking seriously the influence of \u003ci\u003eThe Day the Earth Stood Still\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBad Day at Black Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, and other pop cultural narratives on Reich, this psychoanalytic detective story concerns existential traps, conscious and unconscious collaborations and betrayals by disciples, and unidentified flying object-relations. Reich's is an atomic-age passion narrative. Vitally, Reich's story could be ours. The author is not related to his subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Reich\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, essayist, and journalist. 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He was greatly influenced by early exposure to the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and by a small book on dadaism, and later by Andy Warhol, the Beats, science fiction, psychoanalysis, punk rock, and the films of Ken Russell and Nic Roeg. Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, J.G. Ballard, Anne Sexton, Paul Bowles, D.H. Lawrence, and Lars von Trier are also vital constellations in his work. 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