The Book Of The It (1923) is a key text in the history of psychoanalytical thought and the investigation of human sexual compulsion. Georg Groddeck posits the "It" as the unconscious force that drives human behavior and underpins its poles of attraction and revulsion, standing as the root source of physical disease. It was this notion that Freud would modify into his concept of the Id, a primal calculus of sex and violence. Georg Groddeck was an advocate of self-healing, believing that recognizing the "It" was the first step necessary to understanding human illness. He defines a zone of blood, bodily excretion, mutilation, nightmare and psychosexual dysfunction to reveal the most hidden recesses of the human psyche.

The Book of the It

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Georg Walther Groddeck

Psychology & Counseling

Intl Universities Pr Inc

The Unknown Self

Vision+ Press

2013 Reprint of 1933 Edition.   Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Georg Groddeck (1866-1934) was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine.  Of his method Groddeck wrote: "He who draws the conclusion that I mentally medicate a human who has broken his leg is very true - but I adjust the fracture and dress the wound. And then - I give him a massage, make exercises with him, give a daily bath to the leg with water at 45°C for half an hour and I take care that he does neither gorge nor booze, and every now and then I ask him: Why did you break your leg...?"  The present volume is a compilation of addresses and articles taken, for the most part, from journal articles.  Chapters include:  Shadows of the Past Unconscious Purpose in Animal Behavior Unconscious Factors in Organic Processess Unconscious Symbolism in Language and Art Theoretical  Bases

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