orgastic potency orgastic potency within the work of the austrian psychoanalyst wilhelm reich (1897–1957), orgastic potency is a human's natural ability to experience an orgasm with certain psychosomatic characteristics and resulting in full sexual gratification. part of a series of articles onpsychoanalysis concepts psychosexual development psychosocial development (erikson) unconscious preconscious consciousness psychic apparatus id, ego and super-ego ego defenses projection introjection libido drive transference countertransference resistance denial dreamwork cathexis important figures karl abraham alfred adler michael balint wilfred bion josef breuer nancy chodorow max eitingon erik erikson ronald fairbairn paul federn otto fenichel sándor ferenczi anna freud sigmund freud erich fromm harry guntrip karen horney edith jacobson ernest jones carl jung abram kardiner heinz kohut melanie klein julia kristeva jacques lacan ronald laing jean laplanche margaret mahler jacques-alain miller sandor rado otto rank wilhelm reich joan riviere isidor sadger ernst simmel sabina spielrein wilhelm stekel james strachey harry stack sullivan susan sutherland isaacs donald winnicott slavoj žižek important works the interpretation of dreams (1899) the psychopathology of everyday life (1901) three essays on the theoryof sexuality (1905) beyond the pleasure principle (1920) the ego and the id (1923) schools of thought adlerian ego psychology jungian lacanian interpersonal intersubjective marxist object relations reichian relational self psychology training boston graduate school ofpsychoanalysis british psychoanalytic council british psychoanalytical society columbia university center forpsychoanalytic training and research international psychoanalytical association world association of psychoanalysis list of schools of psychoanalysis