Reimut Reiche (born June 20, 1941, in

Esslingen am Neckar Esslingen am Neckar ( Swabian: ''Esslenga am Neckor'') is a town in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, seat of the District of Esslingen as well as the largest town in the district. Within Baden-Württemberg it is t ...

) is a German sociologist, sexologist, author and psychoanalyst. In his early years Reiche was an activist in

Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund The Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund — the Socialist German Students' Union or Socialist German Students' League — was founded in 1946 in Hamburg, Germany, as the collegiate branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the ...

(SDS) and he became president of the SDS in 1966. He was also a member of the group '' Revolutionärer Kampf'' in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. Reiche studied sociology in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

and

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. In 1973 he published - together with

Martin Dannecker Martin Dannecker (born 1942 in Oberndorf am Neckar) is a German sexologist and author. Dannecker was born in Oberndorf am Neckar. After his schooling, he initially entered industrial retailing and later trained as an actor at a theater school in ...

- ''Der gewöhnliche Homosexuelle (The Ordinary Homosexual)'' to receive his PhD. After he had finished university Reiche worked at the

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft The was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as ''Institute of Sex Research'', ''Institute of Sexology'', ''Institute for Sexology'' or ''Institute for the Science of Sexual ...

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

, in Frankfurt am Main. In 1991 Reiche got his postdoctoral lecture qualification (

Privatdozent ''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...

) on the subject: ''Geschlechterspannung ender (or Sex) Strain'. From 1973 to 1980 Reiche studied at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt am Main and he became a psychoanalyst in 1980 (DPV). Since 1980 Reiche has been working as a psychoanalyst in Frankfurt/Main.

Works

* ''Sexualität und Klassenkampf. Zur Kritik repressiver Entsublimierung'', Berlin, 1968. * ''Sexuelle Revolution - Erinnerung an einen Mythos'', in:

Lothar Baier Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical Text+Kritik. Baier was born in Karlsruhe. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francopho ...

, (1988) ''Die Früchte der Revolte. Über die Veränderung der politischen Kultur durch die Studentenbewegung'', Berlin: Wagenbach, Pages 45–71. * ''Geschlechterspannung - Eine psychoanalytische Untersuchung'', Frankfurt a. M., (Fischer TB) 1990, 204 pages, new edition: Gießen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2000. * ''Sexualität und Gesellschaft'', Festschrift for

Volkmar Sigusch Volkmar Sigusch (born 11 June 1940) is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. From 1973 to 2006, he was the director of the ''Institut für Sexualwissenschaft'' (Institute for Sexual Science) at the clinic of Goethe University in Frankf ...

(zusammen mit M. Dannecker herausgegeben) Frankfurt a. M. (Campus) 2000, 418 Pages. * ''Mutterseelenallein – Kunst, Form und Psychoanalyse'', Frankfurt a. M. (Stroemfeld) 2001, 200 Pages. * ''Triebschicksal der Gesellschaft. Über den Strukturwandel der Psyche'', Frankfurt a. M. (Campus), 2004. * Psychoanalytische Therapie sexueller Perversionen. In: Volkmar Sigusch (Hrsg.): Sexuelle Störungen und ihre Behandlung. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme 2007, S. 439-464 * Ein Hybrid-Nazi in Analyse in: Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse, Jg. 60, Verlag Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2010 ISSN 0075-2363

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Literature by Reimut Reiche
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