Meanings
plural orgones
- countableuncountableIn the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.First known use 20th c.
In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.
1944, Wilhelm Reich, “The Discovery of the Orgone, part 2”, in Theodore P Wolfe, transl., International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, volume III, number 11 more example
So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.
1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press
Origin
- GermanOrgon
- Englishorgone
Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon.
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