My Own Private Germany Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity

Name: My Own Private Germany Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity
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ISBN: 9780691026275

ISBN-10: 0691026270

ISBN-13: 9780691026275

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eric L. Santner

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In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-sicle…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/4/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.13" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Freud, Schreber, and the Passions of Psychoanalysis



The Father Who Knew Too Much



Schreber's Jewish Question


Notes


Index