The Book Of The It

First published in 1923, Georg Groddeck's "The Book Of The It" is a key text in the history of psychoanalytical thought and the investigation of human sexual compulsion. Configured as a series of confessional letters, the book posits the "It" as the unconscious force which drives human behaviour and underpins its poles of attraction and revulsion, and which stands as the root source of physical disease. It was this notion which Freud would modify into his concept of the Id, a primal calculu...