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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781263203321

Autore

Dalzell Thomas G. <1961->

Titolo

Freud's Schreber between psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : psychoanalysis on subjective disposition to psychosis / / Thomas G. Dalzell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2011

ISBN

0-429-91407-5

9780429896966

0-429-47507-1

1-283-07124-X

9786613071248

1-84940-878-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FreudSigmund <1856-1939.>

Disciplina

616.89

616.89/142

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Freud's exemplary case of psychosis: Daniel Paul Schreber; CHAPTER TWO: Disposition to psychosis in Freud's Schreber text; CHAPTER THREE: Psychosis in Freud's papers before and after his Schreber text; CHAPTER FOUR: Freud and Emil Kraepelin; CHAPTER FIVE: Freud and the Viennese psychiatrists; CHAPTER SIX: Freud and Eugen Bleuler; CHAPTER SEVEN: Hereditary disposition in Freud's aetiological chain; CHAPTER EIGHT: The reception of Freud's 1911 aetiology by psychoanalysts

CHAPTER NINE: Jacques Lacan on Freud's SchreberConclusion; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

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