Access Today Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness Articulated By Daniel Paul Schreber In Text
THEY WILL SAY
'The "Memoirs" are the repetitive ramblings of a madman with no bearing in Reality, . . his thoughts his perceptions his hallucinations"
WHAT REALLY IS
A text that is no "memoir of a nervous illness" at all, but, as the original German title and subtitle which is not translated makes indisputably clear: These are "The Great Thoughts of a Nervous Patient with an addendum concerning the question whether or not one may be held in an asylum against their professed will.
" The given translation alters the entire meaning of what follows, forcing it into the modern box of "mental illness autobiography, " This text was meant above all to challenge the legal decision that made Schreber essentially an incompetent child in the eyes of the law, and should be read as such, i.
e. as a juridical critique.
WHAT THEY WILL SAY
Schreber was so insane, he believed himself to be a woman
WHAT REALLY IS
A remarkable account of a gender transition in the most stifling of environments, the asylum.
A judge, over fifty, who decides to become a woman despite her time, her captors, her awareness that she would be labeled insane,
WHAT THEY WILL SAY
Schreber believed himself to be accosted by nonpersons, screamed alone and chanted that he was "the first leper corpse"
WHAT REALLY IS
Flechsig, her psychiatrist, was among the forerunners of the scientific revolution in lateth century psychiatry who issued what he called his "Leichenpolitik" or "corpse policy," reflecting his belief that the primary course for contemporary psychiatry was to examine the dead bodies of lunatics and find the truth of their ailment.
Schreber was quite literally correct: Flechsig had reduced him and others labeled mad to their posthumous value, As living persons, they were worthless as cadavers, they held valuable secrets,
This book is nearly impossible to read because of all the slander and tropes piled atop it, Read it fresh without assuming that Schreber will reveal to you the truth of insanity and you will discover the real beauty of her world,
I, for one, count myself among Schreber's tainted children, and, if you read the text without prejudice, you may find you are too, This guy was really going through it This is a very very interesting book, The guy who wrote it, being a schizophrenic, shows us with this book how productive is the unconscious,
However, if you are not profesionally interesting in studying schizophrenia, this book is thrilling for a few chapters, The rest follows the same
path rich schizophrenic and paranoid connections and apparently logical links concerning god, the pure rays, some doctors, devil, And after each chapter one wonders disconcertedly what the fuck have I just read, the frustration is big, because our somehow rational logical minds try to make sense of the stuff Judge Schreber is mumbling about, Okay, it's weird that I reread this book in bed, It's on my nightstand book shelf, It's a huge chunk of eerily sensible ramblings by a man confined to an insane asylum in nineteenth century german, studied by Freud: the book that launched a thousand psychoanalysts into Eames chairs.
I was drawn to it because I have a compulsive interest in the history of medicine and the history of insanity, I was fed too much Foucault and Zoloft as a child, I read it in bed because, for its size, it's immensely pickupable, Too schizophrenically and religiously insane to persevere with sad to read a great intellect wrestling with its own insanity and trying to make sense of it all, Me recomendaron este libro bajo la siguiente premisa:
Este libro es la declaración de un hombre que asegura ser la esposa de Dios, es un doctor en psiquiatría quien relata aquí su relación con lo espiritual, cómo lo hemos malentendido todo y por qué es el ser vivo más importante sobre la tierra.
Por supuesto, un libro de este tamaño iba a ser difícil de leer, No lo es por lo denso del contenido sino por lo denso del libro en sí, Es extenso y cuesta trabajo de darle seguimiento si como yo tienes poco tiempo para continuar la lectura,
Su hilo, aunque interesante, es fácil de enredar, Es un texto que merece un estudio profundo y definitivamente más gente debería leerlo, aunque sea en fragmentos sueltos y descoordinados como tuve que hacerlo yo.
Siento que lo que aquí escriba no sería justo para el libro, porque hice una lectura apresurada y sin ánimos de absorber, pero es buenísimo para sentirse impresionado por los delirios de un enfermo de lucidez como el doctor Paul Schreber.
En definitiva es un libro impresionante, que me queda muy grande, pero toda persona interesada en la relación entre lo espiritual y lo psiquiátrico le gustará mogollón.
this book is pretty good if you have an interest in severe mental illness, it's a personal account of years spent in a mental institution, a more legit review from brainwashed, com is below:
In, after having served as a judge, he fell ill at the age of, Diagnosed as a paranoiac, he spent the next seven years in an asylum, early on mute before the assaults of his hallucinations and only gradually returning to speech with revelations of his bizarre and overwhelming religious experiences.
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, republished by New York Books, is his account of those events and written with full confidence in the truth
of his visions.
Schreber's problem was God. As his visions showed him, God was a vast net of nerve fibers, all taken from the human corpses, cleansed and raised to blessedness, But sometime in the past, one of these nervous souls committed soul murder and the result upset the Order of the World, causing his own ailment, He believed himself to be unique in the history of the earth in exerting an unnatural attraction upon God, whose rays reached down from the to lodge themselves in his body.
The more they did so, the more feminized he became, And the more female he became, the more he had to worry that God intended to change his sex altogether, then humiliate and rape him, so he could give birth to a new race.
He argues with the sun and receives messages from birds voices shout at him constantly, as God, hoping to sever contact with Schreber, tries to make him completely demented.
God "did not really understand the living human being and had no need to understand him, because, according to the Order of the World, He dealt only with corpses.
" God perpetually afflicts Schreber, pouring corpse juice into his brain, and much as he realizes the absurdity of saying it, Schreber must admit that everything that happens is in reference to him, from the insects that pester him when he closes his eyes to the "bellowingmiracle" which explodes his fits of soulvoluptuousness.
He writes rationally and clearly, taking dictation from the voices in his head: "Bad news came in from all sides that even this or that star or group of had to be 'given up' at one time it was said that even Venus had been 'flooded,' at another that the whole solar system would now have to be 'disconnected,' that the Cassopeia the whole group of had had to be drawn together into a single sun, that perhaps only the Pleiades could still be saved.
" One of his doctors figures as an especially malevolent presence, perhaps the original soul murderer, in any case now a diabolical figure trying to wrest souls from God to gain power, while poor Schreber gets in the way.
The world he constructs is coherent and gloriously imaginative, sometimes beautiful and often horrifying, It is a madness which has long struggled with and finally found its voice,
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