The Book of the It

Rating:
Summary: Of historical interest, only...a curiosity
Review: Groddeck was a contemporary of Freud's and a rival psychoanalyst. His writings are open to the same exact criticisms as Freud's, and he has many of the same silly passions: the "interpretation" of dreams, the fondness for number theory and numerology, the belief that all major personality features derive from some eearly childhood "trauma" or other.

Sometimes his perceptions strike one as eerily precise, but this is only the "fortune-teller" effect. If you write enough sentences, some of them are bound to wind up being more or less true, and it is an odd human trait that we tend strongly to remember the true ones and forget that we ever heard the false ones. As a result, people tend to believe in fortune-tellers, even though nobody knows beans about the future! :-)

Not recommended at all, unless it's for curiosity value!

Rating:
Summary: Of historical interest, only...a curiosity
Review: Groddeck was a contemporary of Freud's and a rival psychoanalyst. His writings are open to the same exact criticisms as Freud's, and he has many of the same silly passions: the "interpretation" of dreams, the fondness for number theory and numerology, the belief that all major personality features derive from some eearly childhood "trauma" or other.

Sometimes his perceptions strike one as eerily precise, but this is only the "fortune-teller" effect. If you write enough sentences, some of them are bound to wind up being more or less true, and it is an odd human trait that we tend strongly to remember the true ones and forget that we ever heard the false ones. As a result, people tend to believe in fortune-tellers, even though nobody knows beans about the future! :-)

Not recommended at all, unless it's for curiosity value!