My own private Germany
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691026282
- ISBN10 0691026289
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 200
- Año de Edición 1995
- Encuadernación Tela
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Psicoanálisis Temas VariosMy own private Germany
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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-siecle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms which would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology.