Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition-revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his nervous illness dominated by the desire to become a woman, terrifying delusions about his doctor, and a belief in his own special relationship with God. Eight years later, Freud's penetrating insight uncovered the impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father, which underlay his extravagant symptoms.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) lived his entire life in Vienna until Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London in 1938. The father of psychoanalysis, he exerted a profound influence over the whole intellectual climate of the twentieth century.
Colin McCabe teaches literature and film at the universities of Exeter and Pittsburgh.
Andrew Weber is senior lecturer in the department of German at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has published widely on German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Colin McCabe teaches literature and film at the universities of Exeter and Pittsburgh.
Andrew Weber is senior lecturer in the department of German at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has published widely on German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.
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'I have twice suffered from nervous illness,' Dr Schreber reports, 'in either case as a result of intellectual over-exertion; on the first occasion (when I was presiding over the provincial court in Chemnitz) as a result of standing for the Reichstag, on the second as a result of the unusual burden of work that I encountered when I took up my new appointment as Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal in Dresden' (p. 34). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homosexual wishful fantasy, paranoid illness, elementary language, masculine protest, divine rays, first illness, nervous illness, dementia praecox Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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'I have twice suffered from nervous illness,' Dr Schreber reports, 'in either case as a result of intellectual over-exertion; on the first occasion (when I was presiding over the provincial court in Chemnitz) as a result of standing for the Reichstag, on the second as a result of the unusual burden of work that I encountered when I took up my new appointment as Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal in Dresden' (p. 34). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homosexual wishful fantasy, paranoid illness, elementary language, masculine protest, divine rays, first illness, nervous illness, dementia praecox Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Order, God Himself, Schreber Case, Theory of Sexuality New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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