1st Edition

Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis

By Thomas Dalzell Copyright 2011
422 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911 Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late nineteenth-century conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis - the objective-biological and subjective-biographical - to privilege subjective... Read more
Preface , Introduction , Freud's exemplary case of psychosis: Daniel Paul Schreber , Disposition to psychosis in Freud's Schreber text , Psychosis in Freud's papers before and after his Schreber text , Freud and Emil Kraepelin , Freud and the Viennese psychiatrists , Freud and Eugen Bleuler , Hereditary disposition in Freud's aetiological chain , The reception of Freud's 1911 aetiology by psychoanalysts , Jacques Lacan on Freud's Schreber , Conclusion

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Thomas Dalzell