My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity

by Eric L. Santner

Book Overview

In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026270
• ISBN13: 9780691026275
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"