Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe ability to experience full orgasmic gratification while engaging in the sexual act, a condition only possible for people without neuroses.
Establishment of orgastic potency brings about very definite changes in the individual — changes which are not properly recognized or understood by most psychiatrists even today. The recognition of orgastic potency was crucial.
1967, Elsworth F. Baker, Man in the Trap, →ISBN, page xxiii2 more examples
Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibitions; the capacity to discharge completely and the dammed-up sexual excitation through involuntary, pleasurable convulsions of the body.
1927, Wilhelm Reich, translated by Theodore P. Wolfe, The Function of the Orgasm, New York: Meridian, published 1970, page 79Orgastic potency is always lacking in neurotic individuals. It presupposes the presence or establishment of genitality: that is, the absence of pathological character armor and muscular armor. Orgastic potency is usually, and erroneously, not distinguieshed from erective and ejaculative potency, both of which are prerequisites of orgastic potency.
2015, Charles Konia, The Emotional Plague: The Root of Human Evil, →ISBN
Origin
- Germanorgastische Potenz
- Englishorgastic potency
Calque of German orgastische Potenz, coined by Austrian physician Wilhelm Reich.
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Finnish orgasmikyky
- orgasmikykyability to experience orgasm
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