The Schreber Case
Douban
Sigmund Freud Andrew Webber
overview
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.
contents
Introduction by Colin MacCabe vi
Tranlator's Preface xxiii
The Schreber Case (Psychoanalytic Remarks on an Autobiographically Described Case of Paranoia(Dementia Paranoides)) 1
[Introduction] 3
I Case History 5
II Attempts at Interpretation 27
III On the Paranoid Mechanism 50
Postscript 69