Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
GROOS, FRIEDRICH. Untersuchungen über die moralischen und organischen Bedingungen des Irrseyns und der Lasterhaftigkeit. Small 8vo, 19th-century 1/4 cloth, original wrappers bound in; old stamps on title verso, showing through on recto; some foxing and early underscoring. Heidelberg & Leipzig, 1826

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first edition. "Groos (1768-1852), a philosopher who later became a psychiatrist, attempted to combine philosophical concepts with physiological reactions and proposed that man is influenced by physiological forces, of which he is unaware, that determine his reactions. If these forces are blocked and cannot find outlet, mental illness results. Freud later held a similar view and defined these forces in terms of instincts"--Alexander & Selesnick, page 188. Zilboorg, pages 473-75.