Cycle 12 · 12 Dec 2023“I is another”, or contradictory identitySchreber
Appears in 7 videos · 8 passages, 6 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani discusses Schreber on the basis of the Memoirs of My Nervous Illness and the analysis Freud drew from them. He points out that it is Freud's only analysis based on a written text rather than on a patient1. He first recalls the delusion of this presiding judge of the Saxon court of appeal: God had chosen him to save the world, on condition that he be changed into a woman2. He also keeps a detail that he cites several times, the birds that mock him and that he identifies with young girls34. From 2023 onward, he places this case within a reflection on contradictory identity. In his view, Schreber cannot recognise this desire as his own and attributes it to the universal order, that is, to God. He sees this alienation as a way of preserving his narcissism5. The delusion then becomes the example of a subject who refuses to know that what determines him comes from within himself6.
- 1#10 The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 32:08
- 2“I is another”, or contradictory identity12 Dec 2023 · 1:33:48
- 3#6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 1:59:52
- 4The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present4 Jun 2024 · 8:50
- 5“I is another”, or contradictory identity12 Dec 2023 · 1:44:06
- 6I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity4 Jan 2024 · 1:43:31
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Daniel Paul Schreber (German:; 25 July 1842 – 14 April 1911) was a German judge who was famous for his personal account of his own experience with schizophrenia. Schreber experienced three distinct periods of acute mental illness. The first of these, in 1884 to 1885, was what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox (later known as paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia, paranoid type). He described his second mental illness, from 1893 to 1902, making also a brief reference to the first disorder from 1884 to 1885, in his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (German: Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken). […]
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Cycle 12 · 12 Dec 2023“I is another”, or contradictory identity
Cycle 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present- 8:50A notable who became psychotic, convinced he had to transform into a woman to save humanity, mocked by birds who speak like young girls.
Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject- 1:14:08Memoirs of a NeuropathIn his delirium, God chose him to save the world on condition that he turn into a woman.
Cycle 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity- 1:43:31His delusion attributes to God what comes from himself: he refuses to know that the determination is internal.
Series · 18 Jan 2021#10 The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner- 32:08Psychotic mocked by birds in his hallucinations; the only analysis Freud made based on a written text.
Cycle 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021#9.12 How can sciences of history be real?- 1:30:37Subject of Freud's long psychoanalysis.
Series · 15 Dec 2020#6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven- 1:59:52Mocked by birds he identifies with young girls.