The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday March 24th, 2022
Wilhelm Reich: A Taoist in Freudian Disguise by Rene Wadlow
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) whose birth anniversary we note on 24 March was part of the Vienna circle of Sigmund Freud in the 1920s after the First World War in which Reich had served in the Austrian army on the Italian front. Reich was born in a town in what was then the Austria-Hungarian Empire (now in Ukraine). He was attracted to Vienna, not as a seat of political power but as a city of rich and cosmopolitan intellectual life. Reich’s parents had been non-practicing Jews, and Reich had little knowledge of or interest in Jewish religious thought. However for the Nazis, Jews were an ethnic group unrelated to any religious doctrines. Reich saw what might happen and in the mid-1930s moved to Scandinavia and at the end of the 1930s to the USA only a few days before the outbreak of World War II.
He was all the more sensitive to socio-political currents in Austria and Germany that he was a member of the Socialist Party which evolved into the German Communist Party. Reich, however, had a character that disturbed all his co-workers. He was expelled from the Communist Party which felt that Reich put too much emphasis on psychological conditioning of the individual and not enough on the class struggle. He was also expelled from the Freudian circles, the Psychoanalytic Association, for putting too much emphasis on class conflict and not enough on sexuality.
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Under A Chesnut Tree #poem #painting by Nikos Laios
“Under
A chestnut tree
We held each other gently,
Under a chestnut tree
We watched the stars.”
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Emmanuel Yawe was a Soldier of Journalism and Statesman by Kola King
The word of God in the Bible is the only consolation we can hold onto following the news of the sudden passing of Emmanuel Yawe. His death came as a rude shock, hitting me like a thunderbolt. He reportedly died in his sleep on Friday 11th March. He was aged 65. I’m still reeling from shock and disbelief that a friend so full of life has passed onto the great beyond. Emmanuel Yawe exuded confidence and he was a man of great charm. He overflowed with warmth and wit. He was a tall and huge man. But beneath his big frame was a kind heart and gentle spirit. He was an extraordinary gentleman. He was also generous and accommodating. We spoke last October on his birthday. But the call was brief as he had some urgent assignments at hand. As the Publicity Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum, I presumed he had a lot on his plate. Yawe was elected spokesman of the forum in 2020. When I started the Metro newsletter last December he was one of the first set of people to take out a subscription. He had assured me of his support and assistance. I later gathered that he had been hospitalized last December and was discharged afterward. He later began to recover steadily. I learned a day before his death, he went to the hospital to seek an appointment with a doctor. After that, he also took his car to the mechanic for repairs. But death came calling the next day, precisely last Friday. God was kind to him as death took him away in his sleep, without pain and suffering. His exit was gentle and quiet. In short, Yawe was victorious as he had swallowed death up in victory. He had joined the Saints Triumphant in a blaze of glory. Hallelujah!
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #008 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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