Fuck Your Brain

Psychology

The Book of the It. Written by Georg Groddeck, a German medical doctor, early psychoanalyst, and associate of Sigmund Freud. Groddeck has been considered the father of psychosomatic theory. Groddeck eschews science and rational thought in favor of a mythological and fantasy-based perception of our experiences. He describes the “IT” in various ways from Eros to the Id to the Unconscious. This It stands behind everything, directing and arranging the experiences of our lives. Groddeck’s main success and conclusion is that the It does not distinguish between fantasy and reality. The It–which Groddeck depicts as the force that motivates a sperm and egg cell to become a particular human–speaks through the body by way of metaphor. When the body expresses disease or illness–in fact, when the body expresses anything at all–this expression can be read as a metaphor communicated by the It. Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt referred to The Book of the It in his Energized Hypnosis DVD set, The Innate Power Response. He wrote, “Anyone who wants to understand the workings of the unconscious should read The Book of the It by Georg Groddeck. Groddeck’s work seems to have influenced Hyatt’s work in a few key ways. In Dr. Hyatt’s Radical Undoing work, at the end of every session, a practitioner then lies still and reports out loud everything he senses and feels in his body, making no interpretations of the information. This session is recorded and later reviewed and the content interpreted as a direct communication from the unconscious….from the It. You can have this experience yourself. Reading Groddeck provides much inspiration for playful and often fantastical interpretation of the data communicated by the It. Even more fascinating is that Groddeck was known for his patients experiencing spontaneous remissions of supposed incurable diseases and conditions while under his care.