Daniel Paul Schreber

The Psychotic Dr. Schreber Page: The Life of Daniel Paul Schreber, Mystic and Madman.

The Psychotic Dr. Schreber

 

 

“I cannot of course count upon being
fully understood because these things are dealt with which cannot be expressed
in human language; they exceed human understanding. Nor can I maintain
that everything is irrefutably certain even for me: much remains only presumption
and probability. After all I too am only a human being and therefore limited
by the confines of human understanding; but one thing I am certain of,
namely that I have come infinitely closer to the truth than human beings
who have not received divine revelation.”

–Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs
of My Nervous Illness

 
http://mythosandlogos.com/Schreber.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber

Daniel Paul Schreber (25 July 1842 – 14 April 1911) was a German judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox. He described his second mental illness (1893-1902), making also a brief reference to the first illness (1884-1885) in his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (original German title Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken)[1]. The Memoirs became one of the most influential books in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis thanks to its interpretation by Sigmund Freud.[2] There is no personal account of his third illness (1907-1911), but some details about it can be found in the Hospital Chart (in Appendix to Lothane’s book). During his second illness he was treated by Prof. Paul Flechsig (Leipzig University Clinic), Dr. Pierson (Lindenhof), and Dr. Guido Weber (Royal Public Asylum, Sonnenstein).

Links

“The
Psychotic Dr. Schreber: A Critique of Freud’s Theory of Paranoia” by Brent
Dean Robbins

“Madness
and Liberation: Journey to Cader Idris” by Brent Dean Robbins

“Reading
the Memoirs: Schreber and “False” Representation” by Janet Lucas

“You’re
Not God–The Story of a Schizophrenic” by Trisha Ready

“God
as a Semantical Signpost” by Jonathan Blumen

“On
the Case of Dr. Schreber” by Earl Jackson, Jr.

“The
Other as Muse:  On the Ontology and Aesthetics of Narcissism” by Allen
S. Weiss

“The
Institution of Rot” by Michel de Certeau

“Fantasy
Space” by Alphonso Lingis

“Mad
Doctors” by Annalee Newitz

“Psychosis
in a Cyberspace Age” by Sheila Kunkle

Schreber
and Freud page

Another
review of Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

Schreber
bibliography

“A
review of James Hillman’s Eranos lecture On Paranoia” by Christine
Nordstrand

“Ferenczi’s
Dangerous Proximities: Telepathy, Psychosis, and the Real Event” by Pamela
Thurschwell

Excerpt
from Vincent Crapanzano’s paper on Schreber

The
Skeptic’s Dictionary compares Schreber to Gurdjieff

Abstract
of Tony Elias’ paper on Schreber and Deleuze

Review
of John Farrell’s
Freud’s Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern
Suspicion

“Lacan
and the Subject of Law” by Ellie Ragland

“The
Shaft” by Laurence A. Rickels

Phil
and Matt talk about Schreber at “Hey! What’s the big idea?”

“Feminist
Philosophy and Some Humanists Attitudes Toward the Teaching of Writing”
by David Bleich

“Modernism
and the Hoarse Men of the Apocalypse” by Fehta Murghana

Schizophrenia
– Questions And Answers National Institute of Mental Health

Sigmund
Freud page

Recommended Readings

Memoirs
of My Nervous Illness (New York Review of Books Classics)

by Daniel Paul Schreber

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Three
Case Histories

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In
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by Zvi Lothane

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

by Eric L. Santner

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by Louis A. Sass

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and Modernism : Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought

by Louis A. Sass

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The
Psychoses 1955-1956 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Bk 3)

by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor),
Russell Grigg (Translator)

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Freud
on Schreber : Psychoanalytic Theory and the Oritical Act

by C.B. Chabot

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Psychosis
and Sexual Identity : Toward a Post Analytic View of the Schreber Case

by David Allison

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Schreber
: Father and Son

by Han Israels

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Autobiography
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by Marguerite Sechehaye (Contributor), Grace
Rubin-Rabson (Translator), Frank Conroy

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When
God Talks Back: Madness or Mysticism?

by Tasha E. Mansfield

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Saints
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by Russell Shorto

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Apparitions:
Mystic Phenomena and What They Mean

by Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D. Kevin Orlin Johnson

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by Sophy Burnham

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Mysticism
and Experience

by Russell H. Hvolbek

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Beyond
Reason : Art and Psychosis Works Form the Prinzhorn Collection

by Laurent Busine, Inge Jadi, Bettina Brand-Claussen,
carolin Douglas, Caroline Douglas

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The
Kundalini Experience : Psychosis or Transcendence

by Lee Sanella, Lee Sannella

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Anti-Oedipus
: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Helen R.
Lane (Translator), Robert Hurley (Translator)

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A
Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia

by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari (Contributor),
Brian Massumi (Translator)

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Case
Studies in Schizophrenia : Based on the Readings of Edgar Cayce (Edgar
Cayce Health Series)

by David, M.A. McMillin

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Five
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by Christina Alexandra, John Paul Brady

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Living
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by Stuart Emmons (Editor), Craig Geiser, Martin
Harrow, Kalman J. Kaplan

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Nola
: A Memoir of Faith, Art & Madness

by Robin Hemley

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Sanity
Plea : Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

by Lawrence R. Broer

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Whispers
: The Voices of Paranoia

by Ronald K. Siegel

Madness
and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

by Michel Faucault

Words
to Say It

by Marie Cardinal