The Schreber Case

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

The Schreber Case is distinctive from the other case histories in that it's based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put down to his excessive workload - but gradually deteriorated into pathological delusion. Believing himself to be dead and rotting, Schreber attempted suicide, and then went on to experience bizarre delusional epsiodes whereby he belived he was being turned into a woman. The course of this extraordinary illness is analysed by Freud in his search for a root cause - could it have been caused by homesexual impulses that Schreber tried to repress?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141970486
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	11/28/2013
Series:	Penguin Modern Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	277 KB

About the Author

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the most informing voices of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vi
	Translator's Preface	xxiii
	The Schreber Case (Psychoanalytic Remarks on an Autobiographically Described Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides))	1
	[Introduction]	3
I	Case History	5
II	Attempts at Interpretation	27
III	On the Paranoid Mechanism	50
	Postscript	69

Editorial Reviews

The "Wolfman" was among Freud's most famous cases, and here the volume gets what the publisher is calling "the first major new translation in more than 30 years." In addition to the Wolfman, so called because the patient had frequent dreams of wolves, this also contains his notes on the "Ratman," "Little Hans," and other notable patients. The Schreber Case is Freud's analysis of Judge Daniel Schreber's memoir, which determined that the subject was suffering from multiple neuroses. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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