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My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber´s Secret History of Modernity
Eric L. Santner
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Description for My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber´s Secret History of Modernity
Paperback. Offers an analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness". This book denies that Schreber's delusional system prefigured the totalitarian solution to a defining structural crisis of modernity. It shows how this figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (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 Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a ... Read more
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 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (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 Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691026275
SKU
V9780691026275
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About Eric L. Santner
Eric L. Santner is the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Department of Germanic Studies. He is the author of Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany.
Reviews for My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber´s Secret History of Modernity
"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-siecle Germany."
James Surowiecki, The Boston Phoenix Literary Section "My Own Private Germany is not only ... Read more
James Surowiecki, The Boston Phoenix Literary Section "My Own Private Germany is not only ... Read more