orgonomy
(ɔːˈgɒnəmɪ)
[f. as prec. + -nomy.]
The study or investigation of ‘orgone’. Hence orgoˈnomic a., pertaining or relating to orgonomy; orˈgonomist, one who practises orgonomy.
| 1949 Orgone Energy Bull. Jan. 23 (heading) The First Orgonomic Conference at Orgonon, August 30 to September 3, 1948. Ibid., On Sunday evening, Aug. 29, 1948, 35 physicians, educators, and laboratory workers gathered in the laboratory at Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine, for a 4-day conference in the field of orgonomy. Ibid. 27 Reich concluded by saying..orgonomy represented a new way of thinking and a new science. 1950 Ibid. Apr. 93 It happens again and again that a physician who has not finished his training in medical orgonomy, or has never even entered training, poses as a trained medical orgonomist. 1953 W. Reich Murder of Christ 200 Orgonomy..is the factual comprehension of the universal ‘Cosmic Orgone Energy’. 1964 Parade (Austral.) Mar. 47/2 Indeed they came in such numbers that the Austrian [sc. Wilhelm Reich] was forced to put on a staff of orgonomists—regular doctors who saw quick profits in this new branch of medicine. 1969 P. A. Robinson Freudian Left 59 The student who has immersed himself in Reich's early work will find the science of Orgonomy curiously familiar. |