Vienna, prior to the folly of WW1, was the centre of a rich and diverse empire. After 1918 it was an empty shell with starvation threatening the poor. Freud's Thanatos seems to suggest the carnage of that war was the result of the soldiers' wish to throw themselves on the bayonets of the enemy. Reich (who fought in that war and lost his home in the part of the empire that became Poland) was a realist. I think you are absolutely right that the populations of Europe were Endurers, they had to be because their rulers were Rigid imperialist autocrats while the intellectual class, who were promoting some appropriate brew of nationalism, were Schizoid/Leavers. Of course the Endurers went off and died, it wasn't in their nature to confront their rulers...
Vienna, prior to the folly of WW1, was the centre of a rich and diverse empire. After 1918 it was an empty shell with starvation threatening the poor. Freud's Thanatos seems to suggest the carnage of that war was the result of the soldiers' wish to throw themselves on the bayonets of the enemy. Reich (who fought in that war and lost his home in the part of the empire that became Poland) was a realist. I think you are absolutely right that the populations of Europe were Endurers, they had to be because their rulers were Rigid imperialist autocrats while the intellectual class, who were promoting some appropriate brew of nationalism, were Schizoid/Leavers. Of course the Endurers went off and died, it wasn't in their nature to confront their rulers...
Reich's version makes much more sense to me.