Description: BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION hardcover, clean NEWtext, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke-free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage wear; WE SHIP FAST.Carefully packed and quickly sent. Although Sigmund Freud never interviewed Schreber himself, he read his Memoirs and drew his own conclusions from it in an essay entitled "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" (1911). Freud thought that Schreber's disturbances resulted from repressed homosexual desires, which in infancy were oriented at his father and brother. Repressed inner drives were projected onto the outside world and led to intense hallucinations which were first centred on his physician Flechsig (projection of his feelings towards his brother), and then around God (who represented Schreber's father, Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber). During the first phase of his illness Schreber was certain that Flechsig persecuted him and made direct attempts to murder his soul and change him into a woman (he had what Freud thought to be emasculation hallucinations, which were in fact, according to Schreber's words an "unmanning" (Entmannung) experience. In the next period of his ailment he was convinced that God and the order of things demanded of him that he must be turned into a woman so that he could be the sole object of sexual desire of God. Consideration of the Schreber case led Freud to revise received classification of mental disturbances. He argued that the difference between paranoia and dementia praecox is not at all clear, since symptoms of both ailments may be combined in any proportion, as in Schreber's case. Therefore, Freud concluded, it may be necessary to introduce a new diagnostic notion: paranoid dementia, which does justice to polymorphous mental disturbances such as those exhibited by the judge. 3 01 145a
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Number of Pages: 174 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Freud on Schreber : Psychoanalytical Theory and the Critical Act
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication Year: 1982
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Psychology
Author: C. Barry Chabot
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
