Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
by Julia Evans on December 16, 1910
Published as:
1) Psychoanalytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (Dementia Paranoides): 1910, published in 1911
Available to download here. (Copy in word)
Or available here. (pdf copy with the additional Strachey references)
Translated by Alix and James Strachey
Or available from Freud2Lacan.com, Part 1
2) Republished:
- a) 1958, in the Standard Edition, Volume 12, p1-82. A reissue of the 1925 translation.
- b) Republished: 1979, in the Penguin Freud Library, Volume 9, Case Histories II, p131-226 with chapter headings as follows:
Editor’s Introduction p131
[Introduction] p 138
I Case History p 141
II Attempts at Interpretation p 168
III On the Mechanism of Paranoia p 198
Postscript Written 1911, Published 1912
3) Editor’s Introduction (p132 pfl onwards)
See Editor’s Introduction (Psycho-Analytic Notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (Dementia Paranoides) [Case of Schreber] : 1958 : James Strachey or here
4) Other References
- P. Schreber: Memoirs of my nervous illness: translated and edited with introduction, notes, and discussion by Ida MacAlpine & Richard Hunter:
Available here : Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber or here
Hallucinations about the ‘Little Men’ : August 1949 (Zürich) : Maurits Katan or here
Schreber’s Prepsychotic Phase : 1st July 1951 [1953] : Maurits Katan or here
Further Remarks about Schreber’s Hallucinations : July 1951 [1952] (Amsterdam) : Maurits Katan or here
Translator’s introduction & analysis of D. P. Schreber’s case: : 1955: Ida MacAlpine & Richard Hunter or available here
Jacques Lacan refers to this case many times. In particular, he examines it in Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956.
Information : Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956: from 16th November 1955: Jacques Lacan or here
Editor’s Introduction (Psycho-Analytic Notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (Dementia Paranoides) [Case of Schreber] : 1958 : James Strachey or here
& ‘On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis’ p179-225 of the translation by Alan Sheridan in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan : See here : Available On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis : 1958 : Jacques Lacan or here
Presentation of the ‘Memoirs’ of President Schreber in French translation: November 1966: Jacques Lacan or available here
Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
or here
– Introduction to the New Schreber Texts : 1988 : Hans Israëls : Available here
– Introduction to D. P. Schreber’s ‘Memoirs : 2000 : Rosemary Dinnage or here
Introduction to ‘A bi-lingual edition of Schreber’s Memoirs of my mental illness/ Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken’: August 2005: Richard G. Klein or available here
Availability of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of my nervous illness & many of the commentaries : See here
References as used by Sigmund Freud or Jacques Lacan
Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia (‘as if’ case) : 1942 : Helene Deutsch : See here
Psychoses of passion : 1921 : Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault or here
Misinterpretative delusional states : 1909 : Paul Sérieux & Joseph Capgras or here
The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias : 1908 : Eugene Bleuler or here
Dementia Praecox : 1896 : Emil Kraepelin or here
Letter of 24th January 1895 and Draft H, Paranoia (The Emma Eckstein episode) : 24th January 1895 : Sigmund Freud or here
Related texts
Texts related to the case of President Schreber here
For further engagements with this case, see Case of President Schreber : 1910 in References to Sigmund Freud within LacanianWorks or here
Schreber’s case revisited with echoes noted in the family of Fred West by Julia Evans : 11th January 2015 : Available here
Ordinary Psychosis: elaborations of James I/VI, Hamlet & Oedipus by Julia Evans on 28th November 2015 or here
Schreber’s case revisited with echoes noted in the family of Fred West by Julia Evans on 11th January 2015 : Available here
An Examination of ‘Learned Helplessness’ by Julia Evans on 11th December 2014 or here
What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet by Julia Evans on 11th September 2013 or here
Psychosis, or Radical Belief in the Symptom : 17th June 2012 : Éric Laurent : given in Tel Aviv, Israel or here
The case, from unease to the lie : 2002 : Éric Laurent or here
Three Enigmas: Meaning, Signification, Jouissance : February 1993 : Éric Laurent or here
Lacan and the Discourse of the Other : 1968 : Anthony Wilden or here
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
Other texts
Texts related to the case of President Schreber here
By Daniel Paul Schreber here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
Availability of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of my nervous illness & many of the commentaries by Julia Evans on 2nd September 2015 or here:
Of the clinic here
Ordinary Psychosis here
Use of power here
Some Lacanian History : here
Topology : here
Lacanian Transmission : here