Bibliograph

The Schreber case, Sigmund Freud ; translated by Andrew Webber, with an introduction by Colin McCabe

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The Schreber case, Sigmund Freud ; translated by Andrew Webber, with an introduction by Colin McCabe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Schreber case

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51652961

Responsibility statement

Sigmund Freud ; translated by Andrew Webber, with an introduction by Colin McCabe

Review

"Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of psychosis. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of a nervous illness dominated by the desire to become a woman, terrifying delusions about his doctor, and a belief in his own special relationship with God. Eight years later, Freud's penetrating insight of Schreber's remarkable memoir uncovered the unacceptable impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father, which underlay his extravagant symptoms. Yet Freud also demonstrated the link with more normal patterns of psychosexual development and the human tendency to transform love into hate."--, Provided by publisher

Series statement

Penguin classics

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