It

See also: Appendix:Variations of "it"

English

Proper noun

It

1. Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italy.
2. Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italian. (language)

Noun

It (uncountable)

1. A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.
   • 1995, Franz Alexander, Samuel Eisenstein, Martin Grotjahn, Psychoanalytic Pioneers, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 319:

     Georg Groddeck believed in man's innate urge to symbolize. […] kind of defenses that interfere with the free creation of the It. But it would be wrong to call Groddeck an artist (which he was) as opposed to a clinical observer […]

   • 1999, Stefan Herbrechter, Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 83:

     […] between the Tao and Georg Groddeck's "It", in Durrell's view, compare for example Lawrence Durrell, "Studies in Genius: IV — Georg Groddeck," Horizon 17.102 (1948) : 392. And what of the It? Groddeck does not claim that  […]

   • 2002, Sharon Klayman Farber, When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments, Jason Aronson, Incorporated, →ISBN:

     I wanted to better understand the concept of the It in Georg Groddeck's Book of the It (1923). Groddeck never clearly defined the It, but it was virtually synonymous with the forces of the id. In fact Freud (1923) derived the word Id from It.

2. The Id, in Freudian psychology.
   • 2014, Jon Mills, Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 63:

     I believe that Freud was mistaken when he made the It into an agency without accounting for how the unconscious portion of the I performs the executive functions of object choice for the drives and competing unconscious material  […]

3. Alternative letter-case form of it (“desirable quality; quality of being successful, fashionable, in vogue”)
   • 2005, SPIN, page 60:

     After selling more than three million copies worldwide of their self- titled 2004 debut, and becoming the new It band, Franz Ferdinand lent songs to both commercials (including "Take Me Out" for Sony's PSP) and art-house porn ...

   • 2007, Melissa Senate, Theodora Twist, Delacorte Press, →ISBN:

     […] when I remember I can't admit that Bo and Brandon are my boyfriends. One Bellini brother would be okay. Two, apparently, makes me a little too PG-13 for the tweenies. The Bellini Brothers are the new It boy band, ...

   • 2008, Hadley Freeman, The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable, Penguin, →ISBN, page 169:

     People will often tell you that you shouldn't buy this season's It bag, dress, or whatever a celebrity has recently been photographed wearing because (a) you will be deemed to be a fashion victim, (b) everyone else will have it ...

   • 2010, Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, Marjorie Julian Spruill, Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 228:

     This may seem an odd choice for the former It Girl (and the mother of the new It Boy), but […]

   • 2011, Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

     Since, as rock critic Georgia Christgau said at the 2008 EMP Pop Conference, “[Willis] cared less about rock than she did about movements,” covering the new It band was just not that important to her. As her daughter, I have received an ...

   • 2017, Kelly Killoren, The Second Course: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 235:

     “He said I'll go from being this season's villain to being this season's It girl.”

Anagrams

• TI, T&I, Ti., ti, t͞i

Low German

Pronoun

It

1. (Westphalian, regional) you (nominative plural)

Declension

• Nominative: It
• Accusative: Ink

Related terms

• Inke (“your (plural)”)

See also

• ek (“I”), mi (“me”), min (mine) (“my”)
• Du (“you (nominative singular)”), Di (“you (oblique singular)”), Din (“your (singular)”)
• he (“he”), sin (“his”)
• et (“it”)
• wi (“we”), uss (i.e. uſſ) (“us”), usse (i.e. uſſe) (“our”)
• se (“they”)
• sik
• me (“one”)