Reich writes: "l’homme doit de souffrir au fait qu’il est la seule espèce biologique capable de détruire sa propre fonction sexuelle naturelle ". Let us set aside this meager, yet stinging observation that the English original is, on this point, far more categorical than its French version: "man is the sole biological species that has destroyed its own natural sexual function and is sick as a consequence of this." There are, in fact, two important differences whose scope exce