 Reich published Die Funktion des Orgasmus ( " The Function of the Orgasm " ) in 1927 , dedicating it to Freud . He had presented a copy of the manuscript to Freud on the latter 's 70th birthday on 6 May 1926 . Freud had not appear impressed . He replied " that thick ? " when Reich handed it to him , and took two months to write a brief but positive letter in response , which Reich interpreted as a rejection . Freud 's view was that the matter was more complicated than Reich suggested , and that there was no single cause of neurosis . He wrote in 1928 to another psychoanalyst , Dr. Lou Andreas @-@ Salomé : 
