The Book of the It - Hardcover

Georg Walther Groddeck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823605701 ISBN 13: 9780823605705

Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc, 1976

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Georg Walther Groddeck was born in Germany in 1866. Originally a writer, he became a doctor in middle life and, from that point on, thought of himself as healer rather than artist. He spent the remainder of his life as director of a clinic at Baden-Baden until his death in 1934.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823605701
• ISBN 13: 9780823605705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 346