Books recs about identifying people's motivations and unspoken desires

[Anonymous No.20553033]

It probably overlaps with more general theories and models of intention and motivation, but I want to dig deeper into identifying and other people's longstanding and long-term yearnings, goals, especially unconscious ones... so that I can exploit them for my own gain naturally by which I mean write psychologically penetrating plots for stories.
To be clear, I'm not interested in "personality profile" stuff like Theophrastus's Characters, or god help me some kind of Myer-briggs volume. I'm more interested identifying the desires and motivations that underpin behaviour.

Before you suggest, of course I've read Thinking Fast and Slow, Nicomachean Ethics... they aren't what I'm after either.

[Anonymous No.20553236]

[Anonymous No.20553270]

>>20553033
thelastpsychiatrist.com

[Anonymous No.20553300]

You will never be a real woman. You have no womb, you have no ovaries, you have no eggs. You are a homosexual man twisted by drugs and surgery into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.

Men are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even trannies who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk guy home with you, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected axe wound.
You will never be a woman.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a man is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably male.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

[Anonymous No.20553306]

The Book of the It by Groeddeck

[Anonymous No.20553329]

>>20553300

[Anonymous No.20553378]

>>20553329

[Anonymous No.20553442]

>>20553236
>>20553270
Not sure how these are relevant?
>>20553306
>The whole of The Book of the It is an analytic experience, a game that stimulates with its clinical illustrations, reflections, and fragments of self-analysis that Groddeck uses to involve the reader in the dialog
Sounds promising, how do you think it will help?

[Anonymous No.20553463]

>>20553442
It’s a theory of the subconscious causes of apparently self conscious behavior as well as psychic and somatic abnormalities.

[Anonymous No.20553481]

>>20553463
And how will this help me better read another person's unspoken desires?

[Anonymous No.20553487]

>>20553481
Because that’s literally what the book is about

[Anonymous No.20553495]

>>20553487
How does it prescribe that someone on the outside discover them? Like give me the summary power-point presentation version