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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. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his ^IMemoirs of My Nervous Illness^N (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the ^IMemoirs ^Ninto the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible^I ^Nas^I ^Na sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-sicle 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. "Immensely provocative, Santner's work compels a deep rethinking of the question of modernity and of our persistent and seemingly inescapable sense that the world is out of joint.... The author does a brilliant job of situating Schreber's work and life in the specific context of fin-de-sicle

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Author

Eric L. Santner

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612752384

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Medical

Rating

4.28 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14