Character Analysis Author:Wilhelm Reich In this third, enlarged edition, the original text of Character Analysis is republished intact. With the publication of Character Analysis in 1933, Wilhelm Reich opened a new epoch in psychoanalysis. Analysis had begun the direct interpretation of the patient's symptoms. Freud had then replaced this with the task of overcoming the resistances... more » of the patient. Now Reich demonstrated that among the various resistances were a group of character resistances.« less