(William Steig in 1946)

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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.

William Steig
(≈ 1935)

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