By Eric L. Santner
In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, lately named presiding pass judgement on of the Saxon splendid courtroom, used to be at the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric sanatorium. He could spend the remainder of the 19th century in psychological associations. as soon as published, he released his ^IMemoirs of My worried Illness^N (1903), a harrowing account of genuine and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's inner most concubine. Freud's well-known case research of Schreber increased the ^IMemoirs ^Ninto crucial psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In mild of Eric Santner's research, Schreber's textual content turns into legible^I ^Nas^I ^Na type of "nerve bible" of fin-de-sicle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that may, after the traumas of struggle, revolution, and the top of empire, coalesce into the middle components of nationwide Socialist ideology. "Immensely provocative, Santner's paintings compels a deep rethinking of the query of modernity and of our chronic and possible inescapable feel that the area is out of joint.... the writer does an excellent activity of situating Schreber's paintings and existence within the particular context of fin-de-sicle Germany, "--James Surowiecki, The Boston Phoenix Literary part "Rarely does one encounter a booklet that's so deeply satisfying.... It units up a brand new average for utilizing psychoanalytic notions to research ideological and political phenomena. as soon as the impression of the e-book is felt, not anything will stay particularly an identical within the learn of psychoanalysis and society."--Slavoj tizek
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ONE FREUD, SCHREBER, AND THE PASSIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS I P SYCHOANALYSTS have long known about the transferential dimension of literary production, about the ways in which texts provide opportunities for their writers to act out or, ideally, work through, some of the very issues animating the subject matter of the text. This insight applies as much to the texts produced by psychoanalysts as by any other group of writers. And, indeed, Sigmund Freud, who founded psychoanalysis to a large extent on the basis of his own self-analysis, was profoundly aware of this transferential dimension of his own literary production.
As Bourdieu has put it, the efficacy of speech acts performed by delegates of an institution, specifically the ability of these speech acts to effect changes in reality—in this case, in the psychic states of the analysand—depends on the delegate’s access to something on the order of a skeptron, some embodiment of institutional power that marks its bearer as an authentic representative of the institution: It is the access to the legitimate instruments of expression, and therefore the participation in the authority of the institution, which makes all the difference—irreducible to discourse as such—between the straightforward imposture of masqueraders, who disguise a performative utter- 26 CHAPTER ONE ance as a descriptive or constative statement, and the authorized imposture of those who do the same thing with the authorization of an institution.
8 He notes, for example, at the beginning of the second part of his essay, that C. G. 9 In the context of Schreber’s preoccupation with rays and emanations as the materializations of potentially excessive and dangerous influences, it is interesting to note Freud’s language in referring to Jung’s priority in the study of the psychoses. He speaks of Jung’s “brilliant example” (SE 12:35)— “das glänzende Beispiel”—of interpretation performed several years earlier on what Freud characterizes as a far more severe case of dementia than Schreber’s.