In 1946, Steig went
into therapy with the Austrian psychoanalyst (and biologist, sexologist,
physicist, astronomer, and meteorologist) Wilhem Reich, who believed that
mankind and the universe alike were permeated by a life energy called orgone.
If your orgone became depleted, Reich believed, you could recharge it by
sitting in an orgone accumulator, a box made alter- nating layers of metallic
and nonmetallic materials. Steig bought one of the boxes, and used it for the
rest of his life. (He lived to the age of ninety-five.) He was in therapy with
Reich for a- bout a year, and emerged a different man. According to Claudia
Nahson, the curator of the Jewish Museum exhibit, he laughed all the way
through his last session.
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| William Steig (≈ 1935) |
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