El orgón o energía orgónica es una idea propuesta y promovida en la década de 1930 por el psicoanalista Wilhelm Reich, que creó originalmente ese término para describir una supuesta fuerza vital universal. La idea fue rápidamente desacreditada y descartada por la comunidad científica internacional. Reich, originalmente parte del círculo de Sigmund Freud en Viena, creía que el concepto de libido de Freud tenía en realidad una base biológica, y desarrolló una práctica terapéutica ostensiblemente diseñada para liberar esta energía corporal, debido a que -de acuerdo a Freud- la salud mental dependía de un flujo libidinal sin inhibiciones. Esta teoría biofísica culminó finalmente en el desarrollo del concepto de orgón (palabra derivada de la misma raíz que "organismo" y "orgasmo"), que según Reich era una substancia sin masa y omnipresente, similar al éter, pero fuertemente asociada con la energía vital en lugar de la materia inerte. La orgonita sería, según Reich, una sustancia compuesta por virutas de metal, resina de poliéster en proporciones aproximadamente iguales y un cuarzo el cual varía en cantidad por ejemplo un cuarzo por tubo en el cloudbuster y en un towerbuster solo un pedazo. La orgonita ordenaría y potenciaría esa energía según las tesis de Reich.

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Orgone is a pseudoscientific and spiritual concept described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force, originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. As developed by Reich's student Charles Kelley after Reich's death in 1957, orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to Mesmer's animal magnetism (1779), to the Odic force (1845) of Carl Reichenbach and to Henri Bergson's élan vital (1907). Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with living energy than with inert matter. It could allegedly coalesce to create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units—called "bions" in orgone theory—to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies. Reich stated that deficits or constrictions in bodily orgone were at the root of many diseases, much as deficits or constrictions in the libido could produce neuroses in Freudian theory. Reich founded the Orgone Institute ca. 1942to pursue research into orgone energy after he immigrated to the US in 1939, and used it to publish literature and distribute material relating to the topic for more than a decade. Reich designed special "orgone accumulators"—devices ostensibly collecting and storing orgone energy from the environment—for improvement of general health or even for weather control. Ultimately, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) obtained a federal injunction barring the interstate distribution of orgone-related materials, on the grounds that Reich and his associates were making false and misleading claims, and later jailed Reich and destroyed all orgone-related materials at the institute after Reich violated the injunction. Reich rescinded the claim that accumulator could provide orgastic potency, but this was not enough to stop the action. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health lists orgone as a type of "putative energy".There is no empirical support for the concept of orgone in medicine or the physical sciences, and research into the concept ceased with the end of the Institute.

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