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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)

By Daniel Paul Schreber , Ida Macalpine , Richard A. Hunter

Book information

Publisher
NYRB Classics
Year
2000
ISBN
094032220X, 9780940322202
LCC
RC520.S33 A313 2000
Open Library ID
OL19291569M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3721456 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
480\480
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman...."

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