Introduction to D. P. Schreber’s ‘Memoirs : 2000 : Rosemary Dinnage
by Julia Evans on January 1, 2000
Memoirs of my nervous illness : Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) :
Published in German 1903 :
Translated and Edited by Ida MacAlpine & Richard A. Hunter, 1955 :
Availability Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber or here
Reprinted by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, 2000 with Introduction by Rosemary Dinnage : Available here
Rosemary Dinnage, writer, born 17 January 1928; died 10 July 2015. Her obituary is here
Book Description: In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a “crisis in God’s realm,” one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber “considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman.”.
References
Freud S. {1911) “Psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (dementia paranoides),” Standard Edition, 12:9-79. Or Case history of Schreber: 1910: Sigmund Freud or here
Lothane, Z. (1992) In Defense of Schreber, Soul Murder and Psychiatry
Further information:
Availability of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of my nervous illness & many of the commentaries Or here
Availability of commentaries & related texts:
– Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber or here
– Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud 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
– On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis : 1955-1956 : two most important parts of Seminar III : Jacques Lacan or here : This is dated December 1955 to January 1956 at the end of the text, though published in 1958.
– 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
– 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
Relevant references
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
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
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 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
Other texts
Texts related to the case of President Schreber here
By Rosemary Dinnage 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