Amazon.com has a new feature called Search Inside the Book which allows for the searching of words or phrases in the text of many books.
Doing a book search for the phrase “ego orgasm” brings up up twelve titles, all of which can be searched using the feature. For example, the book Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein has this historical reference on page 51: “. . . heart. Otto Rank provided an important, if often overlooked, bridge between the two views. Rank moved the theory from genital orgasm to a kind of ego orgasm, describing how the ego seeks to “unburden itself’ through its love relations, freeing itself from inner tensions and . . .”
Coolio.