Daniel Paul Schreber, un écrivain

2019 ◽  
Vol n°48 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Patricia Le Coat Kreissig
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Paul Schreber

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness: Daniel Paul Schreber

1956 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
HERVEY M. CLECKLEY
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Paul Schreber

Vom Schreien. Ikon und Index in Bachmanns Ein Wildermuth

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Thomas-Michael Seibert
Keyword(s):  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Ingeborg Bachmann ◽  
Daniel Paul Schreber

Abstract Schreien passt nicht ins Gericht und eignet sich offenbar insgesamt nicht für eine Kommunikation. Wann und warum also schreit jemand trotzdem? Die Frage hat sich vor Ingeborg Bachmann für den psychiatrisch behandelten Senatspräsidenten Daniel Paul Schreber gestellt, und der Semiotiker Charles Sanders Peirce hat den Index des Rufs vom Ikon des Schreiens unterschieden. Schreien bleibt kommunikativer Erstheit (Firstness) verhaftet, während das Gericht auf Entscheidungen verpflichtet bleibt. Bachmann betont für die Wahrheit beides: das bloße Innewerden der Welt wie daneben die historisch zumutbare Wahrheit.

Don't Wake Daddy: Martin Kippenberger and the Schreber Case

October ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 73-104
Author(s):  
Nathan Stobaugh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Daniel Paul Schreber ◽  
Father And Son

In the later years of his work, Martin Kippenberger made a number of paintings, multiples, and works on paper that referred to both Daniel Paul Schreber—a German judge whose Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) became a subject of considerable commentary by psychoanalysts and critical theorists throughout the twentieth century—and his father, physician Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber. Nathan Stobaugh offers an analysis of these works from the 1990s and argues that Kippenberger's engagement with this case, when placed in the context of his larger body of work, demonstrates the necessity of scrutinizing the Schreber father and son together. While this scrutiny might cast Kippenberger's observers themselves as paranoiacs, such a position might be necessary to apprehend a cultural predicament in which authoritarian power seems equally likely to congeal in the form of a patriarchal master as it is to spread throughout a world in which children of all ages are forced, through the management of their desire, into particular molds.

World-Craving: Rahel Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Strange Promise of Paranoia

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-217
Author(s):  
Noga Rotem
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Case History ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Daniel Paul Schreber ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This essay reads Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen (1957) alongside Sigmund Freud’s case history of paranoia, The Schreber Case (1911), two texts about 18th- and 19th-century personalities caught up in the gender and ethnic politics of their times. Noting affinities between the fantasies documented in Varnhagen’s and Schreber’s memoirs, I compare Seyla Benhabib’s and Eric Santner’s readings of these two texts as political, not psychological, documents. I propose a reading of paranoia positioned between Benhabib’s too optimistic dismissal of paranoia and Santner’s too tragic approach. The result is a new reading of Varnhagen’s story and an approach to paranoia as a potentially promising political affect. Might paranoia stand not just for world-withdrawal but also for world-building? If so, this would be in keeping with Arendt’s own treatment of her subject’s persecution fantasies not only as a “verdict against the world” but also as a desire for a world.

Schreber's Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Goodrich
Keyword(s):  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Iron Cage ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Daniel Paul Schreber ◽  
Radical Critique

Daniel Paul Schreber, a senior German Judge at the end of the 19th century, author of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, wanted to become a woman. Diagnosed by Freud, without ever meeting this patient, as mad, the Judge was simultaneously made world famous and stigmatised as a lunatic. The diagnosis, taken up again by Lacan, excluded the Judge from any non-clinical reading. Schreber’s Law reverses this diagnosis and takes up the case of the Judge in the current climate of trans advocacy to argue that far from being mad, he was driven by transitional desire and his extra-judicial writings, the Memoirs, some poetry, an essay on legal doctrine should be taken seriously as a radical critique of morbus juridicus, the illness of law. The argument is that the Judge fell ill of law. He was sick of the iron cage of German jurisprudence and so broke out and inscribed a biting critique of the automatism of jurists, of the theology of legal positivism, and of affectless reason of law’s putative science.

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