Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Great Regulars: [Georg Groddeck] was quite unorthodox

and something of a pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine. The Book of the It is written in the form of letters to a lady friend and its point, very broadly stated, is that we do not live as deliberately as we like to think. Rather, we are lived by what Groddeck calls the It, which I think it fair to describe as the unconscious personified. The It knows better than we do and often leads us where we would not of our own volition go.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Doing your best under the circumstances

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