Schreber’s feminine identification: Paranoid illness or profound insight?

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Abstract

Schreber’s fantasy of turning into a woman to be fertilized by God and produce a new race of mankind was a major motive for Superintendent of Sonnenstein, Dr Guido Weber, to maintain that Schreber was a case of chronic and incurable paranoia and unfit for life in society, failing to see the difference between the concrete and the metaphorical. Schreber not only proved Weber wrong, but prophetically anticipated a number of issues in current awareness of gender psychology and gender roles in society.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)131-138
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Forum of Psychoanalysis
Volume2
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1993

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