The work offered to the reader is B. Paixa is a classic study of the relationship between mass psychology and fascism. It was written during the economic crisis in Germany (19301933). It was later banned by the Nazis.. The undoubted merits of the book include its unique contribution to the understanding of one of the most important phenomena of our time - fascism. In this book, . Reich uses his clinical knowledge of the personality’s character structure to investigate social and political phenomena. Reich rejects the concept that fascism is the ideology or the result of the activities of an individual people of any ethnic or political group. Nor does he recognize the Marxist ideologues' conception of fascism, which is limited to a socio-political approach. Fascism, from Reich's point of view, is an expression of the irrationality of the character structure of an ordinary person whose primary biological needs have been suppressed for many millennia...