The common sense guide to good sex Book

I picked up this book from my favorite book sale outlet because the words "health and disease" leaped out to me from the blurb which said: "[Groddeck} discusses the whole problem of health and disease from a metaphysical point of view, and with an ironic refusal to dogmatize or tidy his views into a system". and when i read the introduction by Lawrence Durell, i was all the more enticed to read the thesis of Groddeck, whom Durell seemed to be describe as a self-effacing, self-aware man, whose "first job, he considered, was to heal." (Durell thinks that the obscurity of the author's works and teachings was self-imposed)

at the risk of you thinking that i only really read the introduction, i am again going to quote Durell: " He (Groddeck) took the view that the doctor really knows nothing, and of himself can do nothing, that he should therefore interfere as little as possible..."

this depiction of the author, i find, is consistent with the author's words and writing style - of course, i only read a translation. now i wish i could have read and understood the original and german.

i used to think that nothing i read, or see or hear can shake my faith, but this book had me having second thoughts on my moral and spiritual beliefs. i had to deliberately stop reading halfway through it because i was beginning to be bothered by the way i understood the author's ideas and discussions on the complexes - electra, oedipus and on onanism, etc. i can imagine this book (again, the way i understood it) being banned by the church, if it weren't for its obscurity (thank God).

i am contemplating on picking the book up again and finishing it - in the hope of finding something that would someone very dear to me. i went to the marked page where i stopped reading, and there was groddeck's engaging writing style, and picking up the book was like seeing a dear friend again.