Psychoanalysis had to build a world in which, as Reich wrote, ‘natural sexual sociality’ was not ‘replaced by the demands of morality’; a world in which the immediacy of people’s sexual need for each other wasn’t stifled by good intentions or good manners. And he didn’t want psychoanalytic treatment to be a refuge from political engagement. For Freud and many of the first generation of psychoanalysts Reich committed two cardinal sins: he took it for granted that psychoanalysis and politics were inextricable, and he believed that the aim of psychoanalysis was not to provide people with better defenses, but to make them less defensive. He thought, in other words, that psychoanalysis had something to do with freedom - a word that has never been fashionable in psychoanalytic circles - and something less to do with people being less frightened of each other.