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Reich attempted to found a theory of psychopathology and of psychosomatic illness around orgasm. Chasseguet-Smirgel's thesis is that Reich's work continues to contribute to the effacement of Freud's discovery of infantile sexuality. Jean Gillibert has suggested that the emphasis on sexuality today constitutes a negation and a repression of infantile sexuality. Chasseguet-Smirgel agress and argues that Reich was one of the first who attempted to eradicate Freud's fundamental discovery. Reich appears to have fought for sexual liberty and the recognition of sexuality in children, but Chasseguet-Smirgel finds that the result of his work is quite different. Reich's reduction of sexuality to genitality negates infantile sexuality and thus the whole Freudian broadening of the concept of sexuality. Reich's viewpoint also minimizes considerations of psychic structure. The superego is seen as a result of external constraint, completely detached from its biological and infantile origins. Reich even explains infantile dependency as the result of parental authority and suggests that oedipal conflicts would disappear if oppressive external constraints were absent. Chasseguet-Smirgel reviews some of the possible unconscious meanings which orgasm may have had for Reich, suggesting that Reich in effect offered us, instead of a real theory of the orgasm, a catalog of orgasm's unconscious meanings.