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Listen, Little Man!

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Listen, Little Man! (German: Rede an den kleinen Mann) is a 1945 essay by Austro-Hungarian-American psychologist Wilhelm Reich described by his publisher as "a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a 'representative of the people,' he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted." [1] It was translated into English in 1948 by Theodore Peter Wolfe.

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  1. ^ Listen, Little Man!. Macmillan. 1974. ISBN 978-0-374-50401-4.
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