The Ego and the Id
This dialogic book will give you Freud's own vocabulary for the forces that govern you from within. You will learn to trace the origins of guilt, compulsion, and inner conflict, and recognize in your own behavior the signatures of drives you never chose and cannot simply override.
Burnout, perfectionism, doom-scrolling, the voice in your head that says you are never enough. Freud wrote The Ego and the Id in 1923, as post-war Vienna confronted the wreckage of civilized certainty. A century later, his structural model of the psyche still offers the sharpest framework for understanding why you act against your own interests.