Freud's Schreber between psychiatry and psychoanalysis : on subjective disposition to psychosis /
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 dispo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Karnac Books,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the paradigms of early nineteenth-century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating the legitimate claims of biological psychiatry in relation to heredit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 401 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-389) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849408783 1849408785 9781780498065 1780498063 128307124X 9781283071246 9786613071248 6613071242 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
