On Wilhelm Reich’s birthday: what to celebrate?

Abstract

More than one hundred and twenty years have passed since the birth of Wilhelm Reich in 1897 and more than sixty years have passed since his death in 1957, but his ideas remais alive and desserves to be disseminated. In this, Information and Communication Technologies, so common nowadays, have a determining role. In this sense, this text aimed to identify, based on the vídeos available on Youtube, those capable of contributing to the dissemination of this author, still so unknown in Brazil. Through exploratory research on the Youtube website, we make sure that at least 10 of the collected vídeos contribute for an initial idea of who this author was. By organizing an initial database, disseminating it through this research, we hope to contribute to the dissemination of the ideas of this author who has a lot to contribute to the discussion of contemporary themes in the most differents areas of knowledge.

Keywords:
Wilhelm Reich; Information and Communication Technologies; Youtube