orgone box

[ awr-gohn ]

noun

1. a cabinetlike device constructed of layers of wood and other materials, as tin, claimed by its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, to restore orgone energy to persons sitting in it, thereby aiding in the cure of impotence, cancer, the common cold, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of orgone box¹

1940–45; probably org(anism) + -one

Example Sentences

She writes movingly and at length about discredited psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich — he of the steel-lined orgone box — who died in 1957 at Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after years of persecution by the Food and Drug Administration.

From Los Angeles Times

The orgone box style of acting — hermetic, self-engrossed — is back with a vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times

Bean also became a spokesman of sorts for psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich’s self-healing theories of the “orgone box” on talk shows.

From Los Angeles Times

“My epitaph,” Mann joked to me, “will be that I was the first person to put a string quartet in an orgone box.”

From Los Angeles Times

Often Bellamy was alone, curled up inside the orgone box that Kenneth Noland had left in the gallery.

From New York Times