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* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Partly averted. A large portion of it is about Wilhelm Reich. But then, he was an assisstant of Freud.

* [[Artistic License]]: In [[Real Life]], Wilhelm Reich never lived in the Soviet Union, and while his patients and followers probably did engage in orgies from time to time it wasn't part of any of Reich's therapies.

* [[Red Scare]]: Acording to this film, Reich was persecuted for this reason. (The reality was somewhat different; at the time Reich was indicted by the FDA, he was an ardent anti-communist.)

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]

* [[Widget Series|Widget]]: Try explaining to your friends that this movie is half a documentary about a psychologist who thought that sex was the key to the USSR's success, and half a comedy about a communist romancing an ice skater who decapitates her when they have sex. After which the severed head talks to the audience.