Word: groddeck
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...HOLE will not rest until something is stuck in it," writes Groddeck, referring the symbolic significance of nostrils. Similarly, one could say that The Book of the It has much in common with nose-picking: it pokes around in tabooed corners...
Having incorporated the basic tenets of Freudian theory as it existed in 1923 into his private mystical world view, Groddeck provided a springboard from which Freud was later able to add the important model of dynamic conflict among the Id, Ego, and Superego to his previous topographical (unconscious-preconscious-conscious) model...
...contrast with Freud proves instructive. For Freud, the Id was that component of the pysche containing primitive emotional impulses which the human ego seeks to gratify without trespassing upon the demands of the (conscience). Groddeck's It, on the other hand, has power even over what Freud calls the ego, which it created. For while Goddeck recognizes that we sense the "I" to stand over and against the IT, he repudiates the existance of an "I": ["I am by no means I, but a continually changing form in which the IT displays itself, and the 'I' feeling...
Unfortunately, one's understanding of the IT concept bogs down when Groddeck describes a separate It to each human cell, to each organ, and to the left and right sides of the body. The idea is further confused when he insists that the roots of every human event lie in the IT, even such an accident as being a passenger on a plane that crashes...