Notes: Projects
The reason Freud had to distance himself from Reich was that Reich was taking some of Freud’s theories to some of their logical conclusions. If people were using their morality to repress their sexuality, but sexuality made life worth living - was, in fact, life itself - then they needed to change their morality and have more satisfying sex; and psychoanalysts had to use whatever means were necessary to get the patient not merely to see this, but to live it.
Phillips, LRB, 20 October 2011, page 27.