orgone box

American  

[awr-gohn] / ˈɔr goʊn /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of orgone box

1940–45; probably org(anism) + -one

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

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

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2016

It was a kind of orgone box turned inside out, so that it could work its therapeutic magic on the cosmos.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011

Mr. Salinger drank his own urine, she wrote, and sat for hours in an orgone box.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2010

After Reich moved to the U.S., a federal court handed him a two-year sentence for defying a court order that forbade shipment of his notorious but harmless "orgone box" across state lines.*

From Time Magazine Archive