When Sean Connery went to Norway to regain his virility
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In 1967 Sean Connery felt he had problems with his potency and virilty. He thought that part of the problem was an internal conflict between himself and his James Bond persona. One of the formost experts on the field of orgasms and virility was Ola Raknes, a Norwegian communist and psychotherapist who believed in "free love". So in October 1967 Connery got on a plane and traveled to Oslo to be treated by Raknes. Ola Raknes was a former pupil of the German Wilhelm Reich who was one of Freud's last students. Both Raknes and Reich believed in orgon, a cosmic radiation that is the source of all energy. It may surprise you to hear that the theory was controversial. Raknes made a closet named the orgon closet buildt out of organic and metalic materials. Inside this orgon accumulator the patient is supposed to draw energy from the closet and the air outside it.
Raknes also felt the pasient should lie down on the couch naked during the psychotherapy session so Raknes could "penetrate the patient's armour of muscles, remove the neurosis and make them whole and harmonic human beings."
Ola Raknes' Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Raknes
Sean Connery to the left and Ola Raknes to the extreme right.
Raknes also felt the pasient should lie down on the couch naked during the psychotherapy session so Raknes could "penetrate the patient's armour of muscles, remove the neurosis and make them whole and harmonic human beings."
Ola Raknes' Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Raknes
Sean Connery to the left and Ola Raknes to the extreme right.
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Out of it.
I guess Connery didn't take the old ball and chain with him on his trips?
Well, if Connery was only in Norway twice and Ullmann is right about him being James Bond at the time I'd say the wife remained in the UK ...
Yes. Just because you leave your wife at home doesn't mean there isn't a wife at home ...
I always wondered how meaningfull that relationship was to Connery at the time, as he was defenitely sleeping around with countless women. There are several stories to be found suggesting that Bond slept with both his co-stars Lana Wood and Jill St. John on Diamonds Are Forever, as well as Vanessa Redgrave in 1965, and god knows how many others during that period! But then again in his defence, if you are both the sexiest men alive AND James Bond, it's hard to repress those powers ) )
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Yes, was it recent or a cutting? Just curious.
Ah, I see. Thank you for that information. This thread has been most interesting. -{
According to Wikipedia production began in January 1974.
The woman is sitting in an Orgon cabinet, just like Sean Connery did in 1967. Apparently the cabinet was called both the Orgone cabinet, but Woody Allen dubbed it the Orgasmatron!