An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed orgastic potency, the capacity to surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibitionfree of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at least would not be blocked or diverted by destructive or irrational emotion or by exaggerated respect for institutions that were not life-enhancing.
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