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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


David Tolchinsky, the co-director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at the School of Communication and former department chair of the Radio, Television, Film department. Tolchinsky’s new play, “An Attempt to Heal in the Contemporary World,” examines the theories of Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Sigmund Freud whose radical theories about the body’s influence on the mind were rejected.

Northwestern professor to premiere play on psychoanalyst at New York festival

October 10, 2018

A&E Some argue life is mind over matter, but revolutionary psychoanalyst and the inspiration of an upcoming New York play Wilhelm Reich would beg to differ. Reich was a protégé of Sigmund Freud...

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