 Reich was influenced by the work of the Austrian internist Friedrich Kraus , who argued in his paper Allgemeine und <unk> Pathologie der Person ( 1926 ) that the <unk> was a relay @-@ like switch mechanism of electrical charge and discharge . Reich wrote in an essay , " Der Orgasmus als Elektro @-@ <unk> <unk> " ( " The Orgasm as an Electrophysiological Discharge " , 1934 ) , that the orgasm is just such a bioelectrical discharge and proposed his " orgasm formula " : mechanical tension ( filling of the organs with fluid ; <unk> ) → bioelectrical charge → bioelectrical discharge → mechanical relaxation ( <unk> ) . 
