ISBN 9780940322202 | 094032220X Textbooks - "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness New York Review Books Classics" by Rosemary Dinnage Ida Macalpine Daniel Paul Schreber Richard A Hunter

Authors: Rosemary Dinnage - Ida Macalpine - Daniel Paul Schreber - Richard A. Hunter
ISBN 10: 094032220X
ISBN 13: 9780940322202
Edition: New edition
Release: January 31, 2000
Format: Paperback (488 pages)
List Price: $16.95
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Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, General,

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