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  Memoirs of my Nervous Illness, Daniel Schreber
Schreber would be just another forgotten nut case who spent too many years in German asylums if it were not for the fact that he wrote extensively and persuasively what he saw, heard, and felt during his illness.
Schreber's writing has a very peculiar effect on the reader, for it is an extended disquisition into the fears, angers, and babblings that constitute the mad eigenwelt and umwelt.
Schreber was the son of a physician, Moritz Schreber, one of the best-selling authors of nineteenth century Germany.
www.ralphmag.org /schreber.html   (1014 words)

  
  The Semiotics Of Schreber's Memoirs
Schreber thus asserts that "I lived in the belief–and it is still my conviction that this is the truth–that I had to solve one of the most intricate problems ever set for man and that I had to fight a sacred battle for the greatest good of mankind" (Memoirs, MH 130, D 139).
Schreber's 'nervousness' is both the literal means of installing himself as the center of the universe–the master signifier par excellance–and (ironically) that which constantly threatens to undermine his position.
Schreber further contends that "the nerves of living human beings particularly when in a state of high-grade excitation, have such power of attraction for the nerves of God that He would not be able to free Himself from them again, and would thus endanger His own existence" (Memoirs, MH 48, D 24, emphasis mine).
www.lacan.com /semofmem.htm   (11164 words)

  
  Daniel Paul Schreber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schreber was a successful and highly respected judge until middle age when the onset of his psychosis occurred.
Freud thought that Schreber wanted to be turned into a woman so that could be the sole object of sexual desire of God (who represented Schreber's father).
For example, one of the "miracles" described by Daniel Schreber was that of chest compression, of tightening and tightening.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber   (508 words)

  
 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review of Books Classics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Schreber, second son (the first committed suicide) of an abusive father, was at the peak of a brilliant career in Leipzig when he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Saxon High Court of Appeals.
Schreber had a hard time believing in the "fleeting-improvised-men" who flitted in and out of his life, and grew convinced that he was the only human left in a world of shadows.
Perhaps it is. The son of physician, Moritz Schreber, Schreber came from a family of "madmen," to a greater or lesser degree.
www.freeglossary.com /p:094032220X   (1756 words)

  
 Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber - Wikipedia
Schreber propagierte neben seiner "systematischen Heilgymnastik" auch die Ertüchtigung der Stadtjugend bei Arbeit im Grünen – der Begriff der "Volksgesundheit" schloss in seiner Epoche allerdings immer auch den Gedanken an "gesunde Triebabfuhr" mit ein, weshalb er u.
Alice Miller zufolge gilt Schreber als einer der Hauptvertreter der "Schwarzen Pädagogik", deren Folgen sie in ihrer Literatur eingehend untersucht.
Ein Sohn war Daniel Paul Schreber, dessen autobiographische Beschreibung seiner schweren psychischen Erkrankung "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (1903) von Sigmund Freud auf der theoretischen Grundlage der Psychoanalyse interpretiert wurde.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Gottlob_Moritz_Schreber   (326 words)

  
 New York Freudian Society : Freud Abstracts Vol 12
Schreber's Memoirs were published in 1903; but, though they had been widely discussed in psychiatric circles, they seem not to have attracted Freud's attention till the summer of 1910.
Schreber's case, at first took the form of delusions of persecution, and did not begin to lose it until the turning point of his illness.
When Schreber boasts that he can look into the sun unscathed and undazzled, he has rediscovered the mythological method of expressing his filial relation to the sun, and has confirmed Freud once again in his view that the sun is a symbol of the father.
nyfreudian.org /abstracts_16_12.html   (6380 words)

  
 Zvi Lothane, MD - Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Niederland believed that Moritz Schreber's use of posture-improving devices and other educational methods was tantamount to sadistic tortures which were later relived by Schreber in the form of terrifying psychotic symptoms he called miracles.
Up until now Schreber's symptoms were treated as if they occurred in a contextual vacuum, unrelated to the psychiatric and legal systems that dealt with him and decided his fate.
Moreover, Schreber was also mistreated, his so-called delusion of soul murder was a correct description of the soul-killing practices of the psychiatrists and attendants who treated him in the various institutions.
www.mssm.edu /faculty/lothane/schreber/histo.html   (654 words)

  
 Paranoia, induced energy blocks
(Schreber's son's doctors) later noted that the father suffered from "obsessional ideas with murderous impulses." [He was determined to prove, as a point of pride, that his rationalized mechanistic theories would work at the expense of his children and to the deception of his audience.]
Schreber's method of teaching a baby self-denial is to set up a hierarchy by which he applies his power upon the nurse to apply hers upon the baby.
Schreber seems to be saying that as parents raise their power over their children, they will be "rewarded" by the possibility of greater power still; the goal is for the child to be in a sort of trance in which he experiences each glance of the parent as a command.
www.earthtym.net /bal-paranoia.htm   (2954 words)

  
 Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness Review | TVGuide.com
Schreber postulates the existence of a "nerve language," which God, Dr. Flechsig and others use to communicate with him telepathically, and fears that Flechsig might even be interfering with God's divine communications, or "rays," and committing "soul murder" — prolonging the existence of his own soul by stealing Schreber's.
As Schreber continues to scribble and draw in his journal — a blasphemous, even pornographic work that shocks and disgusts Dr. Flechsig but which Schreber believes contains a new religious truth — he comes to believe that his spiritual contest with the good doctor is destroying the human race.
Schreber's delusions take a still stranger turn when he feels he's becoming "unmanned" — turned into a woman — so he can be fertilized by God and repopulate the earth.
www.tvguide.com /movies/memoirs-nervous-illness/review/285094   (470 words)

  
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Schreber should have been a professor of psychiatry.
Nevertheless, from 1911 to 1949, Schreber and his book have been forgotten, untill Katan started studying psychosis based in the book.
Schreber is not anymore an inspiration to psychoanalysis only, but also to opera, ballet, movies and theater.
www.multimania.com /pradodeoliveira/en/Eaccueil.html   (231 words)

  
 New York Blade Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The journal, though, takes Schreber down a path of spiritual psychosis marked by startling delusions in which Schreber comes to believe that God has created an alternative universe of nerves inside of each person and that Schreber himself has been chosen by God to give birth to a new race of men.
As Schreber’s illness worsens, he scribbles in his journal obsessively, stares out the window at the blinding sun, caterwauls at no one in particular, and scares the bejesus out of his wife Sabine (Lara Milian) whenever she comes to visit.
Schreber’s journal was published in 1903 and became a founding text of modern psychiatry, widely seen as a key to understanding the composition of the human mind.
www.newyorkblade.com /2006/12-11/arts/film/drama.cfm   (579 words)

  
 Pleurozium schreberi
Published classification schemes idenitifying Schreber's moss as a ground cover dominant or codominant are as follows: Some forest types of central Newfoundland and their relation to environmental factors [7].
Schreber's moss is used as an indicator of heavy metal deposition [11,29].
Although Schreber's moss is most abundant in old, closed, mesic stands, it is also found in dry, nutrient-poor, open, fl spruce-lichen stands in suitable areas at the base of birch (Betula spp.) and fl spruce [19,21,35].
www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/bryophyte/plesch/all.html   (2120 words)

  
 Energía cósmica inteligente - ilustrados.com
Schreber pensaba que los padres debían restringir la libertad de sus hijos mediante severas disciplinas en aras de la salud: moral, mental y física.
Schreber al solicitar la ayuda de los padres y la parte noble de los niños contra la parte mala que se encuentra en el interior de los pequeños, de hecho la derrota, para estos, en forma de alineación, no puede faltar.
Schreber justifica su actuación autoritaria, aduciendo que de esa forma salva al niño de “espíritus internos atormentadores”, no ve que esos espíritus se encuentran dentro del pedagogo autoritario, quien simplemente proyecta en los niños sus propios tormentos de culpabilidad.
www.ilustrados.com /publicaciones/EpAlyyZFkFEdSnzcgX.php   (3708 words)

  
 Schreber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A decisão judicial que devolveu ao Dr. Schreber a liberdade resume a essência de seu sistema delirante em poucas frases: ‘Acreditava que tinha a missão de redimir o mundo e restituir-lhe o estado perdido de beatitude.
Schreber relata ‘Embora se torne necessário que eu aflore um tema desagradável, tenho de dedicar mais algumas palavras à pergunta que acabei de citar (“Por que você não c… a?”), devido ao caráter típico de todo o assunto.
Schreber tinha o hábito de vituperá-lo e de gritar-lhe ameaças; declara, além disso, que quando se detinha a encará-lo e falava alto, seus raios empalideciam perante ele.
casosclinicos.vila.bol.com.br /schreber.html   (5791 words)

  
 Daniel Paul Schreber | Heroes | Entertainment | Bizarre Magazine UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The account Schreber gives of his breakdown is extraordinary: what is no less extraordinary is what a whole host of psychiatric authors, most famously Freud, were to make of the case once it was published.
Schreber's penis disappeared, he grew breasts and became a she of staggering voluptuousness.
Schreber himself came to celebrate his womanliness, his fecundity and it's not hard to see why: he wanted to have the children his wife (six miscarriages) had failed to produce.
www.bizarremag.com /entertainment/heroes/136/daniel_paul_schreber.html   (901 words)

  
 alembic: the sun is a whore*   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Reading about Starson, made me think of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) and his memoir of his mental illness, that great fodder for Freud's theorizing on paranoia and the process of projection.
I suppose, the trouble with cases like that of Starson and Schreber is that they have a way of forcing us to move on up to the middle of that bridge and, for a moment, see both shores of our certainties as shimmering visions, instead of the terra firma of our lives.
Starson and Schreber bother us because the method of their madness and the madness of their method throw us into a world glimpsed through mirrors where little, aside from torment, can be taken for granted.
www.ashladle.org /archives/000193.html   (654 words)

  
 Sarkozy, Schreber et le peer-to-peer - Psychanalyste-Paris.com
Avec ce corollaire, pour Schreber, qu’il fini par s’apercevoir que la véritable volupté est bien là, non pas tant dans le fait de télécharger (d’apprendre par cœur des voix, sous forme de poèmes, etc.), mais bien de décharger :
Majors), Schreber a tout de même quelque appréhension du problème - du pourquoi de cet « engluement » - et l’énonce clairement dans sa libre association :
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Œdipe et son Complexe...
www.psychanalyste-paris.com /Sarkozy-Schreber-et-le-peer-to.html   (2795 words)

  
 bensozia
Schreber was a German paranoiac who at times believed that he was the only living person in the world, and that all the others around him were dead souls animated by a sadistic God; the world could only be redeemed if Schreber could be transformed into a woman and give birth to a savior child.
Jung in particular was fascinated by the relationship between Schreber and the authors of ancient myths, and he thought that the reappearance in Schreber's fantasies of certain mythic themes showed that those myths were rooted in the subconscious.
Schreber's legal battle against the doctors he thought were conniving in God's oppression of him has made him a convenient hero for psychiatry's enemies, most notably Foucault, who equated Freud's dismissive analysis of Schreber's thought with Schreber's imprisonment at the hands of his doctors.
www.bensozia.com /benhist/49steps.html   (1602 words)

  
 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Schreber's voice-over confesses that he has suddenly found himself thinking it must be pleasant to be a woman submitting to intercourse.
Schreber is a respected citizen, a judge in Geneva bands.
Here, Schreber becomes convinced that he is turning into a woman, and even that he has become pregnant through some sort of immaculate conception.
us.imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-prev/title/tt0479098   (1148 words)

  
 The forced card of the clinic
We underline this sentence because, in the analysis of Schreber's case, when considering the influence of the conditions that trigger the disease, in pointing the absence of Schreber's wife because of a trip, Freud says she functioned as a contention factor for the homosexual drive.
Schreber's Schreber, in his Memories of a neuropath, Freud's Schreber, in his princeps article and Lacan's Schreber, in the seminar on the psychosis.
In this case they turned to Schreber, the only son of the founder, seeking to be legitimized, and he discovered he could not answer this question for the "legitimate son".
booksandtales.com /talila/forced.htm   (5703 words)

  
 Wir über uns
Wer denkt da nicht zuerst an die Schreber- und Kleingärten, die ihre feste Verwurzelung im Leben breiter Bevölkerungskreise in unserem Land gefunden haben.
Die Geschichte der Schreberjugend beginnt in der 2.
Organisationen und Gruppierungen mit faschistischem Charakter sowie solche, die dem Rassismus huldigen oder die internationale Verständigung blockieren, scheiden als Kooperationspartner der Deutschen Schreberjugend aus.
www.schreberjugend.de /wirueberuns/wirueberuns.php   (172 words)

  
 Santner, E.L.: My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity.
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.
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-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology.
press.princeton.edu /titles/5794.html   (462 words)

  
 MetroActive Features | Work
Schreber, having discovered that he could talk to the sun, the birds and God, records how he came to believe that every soul is made up of "nerves" and "rays," many of which were penetrating Schreber's body and torturing him.
Their idea, in part, was that Schreber's articulate madness was a kind of political revolt against his repressive society and the horrifying, authoritarian world of the mental asylum where he was imprisoned for several years.
Schreber's compulsive thinking sounds like what we're all supposed to do in the information economy, but taken to its logical extreme.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/11.01.00/work-0044.html   (733 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness: Books: Daniel Paul Schreber,Rosemary Dinnage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Schreber had a hard time believing in the "fleeting-improvised-men" who flitted in and out of his life, and grew convinced that he was the only human left in a world of shadows.
What Schreber has really done is to capture the sheer poetry of insanity and madness in such a way that we, as his readers, feel ourselves being swept along with him into his world of fantasy.
Perhaps it is. The son of physician, Moritz Schreber, Schreber came from a family of "madmen," to a greater or lesser degree.
www.amazon.ca /Memoirs-Nervous-Illness-Daniel-Schreber/dp/094032220X   (2128 words)

  
 Schrebervereine und Schrebergärten - Dr. Schreber hat diese nie gesehen (11.6.05)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Schreber hatte zu seinen Lebzeiten die schlechten Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten von Kindern und Jugendlichen in den damaligen Städten angeprangert und gefordert, daß auf die Bedürfnisse von Jugendlichen und Kindern insofern Rücksicht genommen würde, als daß entsprechende Spielstätten und Plätze geschaffen würden.
Schreber ersann allerhand Geräte, um Kinder z.B. mit Gürteln so festzubinden, so daß sie bestimmte Körperhaltungen einhielten, sich nicht verkrümmten, Mädchen z.B. nachts nur auf dem Rücken schliefen, etc. Er versuchte auch die Masturbation beider Geschlechter zu unterbinden und legte immensen Wert auf den absoluten Gehorsam der Kinder ihren Eltern gegenüber.
Schreber wird nachträglich in der heutigen Zeit Sadismus vorgeworfen, wobei es aber durchaus sein kann, daß er damals mit besten Absichten handelte, aber leider wohl wortwörtlich das Kind mit dem Bade ausschüttete.
www.bunkahle.com /Aktuelles/Gesundheit/Schreberverein_Schrebergaerten.html   (794 words)

  
 Roger Bozzetto
Schreber est à la fois conscient de sa singularité et des difficultés qu'il doit surmonter pour faire en sorte que ce qu'il dit soit perçu comme autre chose que de « l'insanité ».
Schreber se sert en effet du (et même des) langages, et travaille dans et sur leurs limites — qu'il met en lumière et thématise.
SCHREBER (Daniel Paul) op cit voir notes 4 et 9.
www.noosfere.com /Bozzetto/article.asp?numarticle=364   (4508 words)

  
 recent reading
Daniel Paul Schreber was a highly educated man living in Leipzig, Germany, around the turn of the century.
This is possibly the only contemporaneous chronicle of schizophrenia as experienced from the inside; Schreber wrote it during his confinement, not after his release and recovery.
Schreber's intellect was so great that even while still in the grip of these delusions, he was able to go to court to challenge the court order under which he was involuntarily confined - and win!
www.watervalley.net /outrage/reading7.html   (916 words)

  
 Analytica: Schreber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The radical event of Freudian analysis was to reverse this process and listen to the patient, yet even most therapists and analysts still regress to the violence of interpretation through there transference to the theories and authorities which protect them.
If Schreber is the most cited patient in medical history, then perhaps it is because he is a kind of "Imitation of Christ" for our times.
In terms of the dualistic model of psychosis or neurosis/normality this is certainly a failure of the name of the father.
www.integral.abstractdynamics.org /blog/archives/003273.html   (639 words)

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