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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A follower of Reich or his methods.

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods.

   "A shocking Riechian ^([sic]) look at how repressed and thwarted sexuality manifests itself in fascist politics."

2. 2
   Of or relating to Charles A. Reich (1928–2019), American academic whose 1970 book The Greening of America was a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s.

Example

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"A shocking Riechian ^([sic]) look at how repressed and thwarted sexuality manifests itself in fascist politics."

Etymology

From Reich + -ian.

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