*Young psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich impresses his contemporaries with new breakthroughs in character analytic technique. His liberal political ideology and fascination with sex research alienates him from the older psychoanalytic society members.
Reich is visited by his brother Robert who is suffering from an advanced case of tuberculosis.
Reich presents a manuscript to Freud on his seventieth birthday that outlines much of Reich's orgasm research. Freud's initial response is a cold "that thick?" *Source Inside Cover of Reich #3