Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114126 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

Synopsis
Composed while the distinguished German judge Daniel Schreber was confined to a psychiatric hospital and published at the outset of the twentieth century, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness has fascinated and haunted its many readers, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Elias Canetti, and Dilles Deleuze, and has established itself as a key text for students of psychology and modern social and cultural history. As Rosemary Dinnage says in her introduction to this new edition, Schreber wrote 'an account of what it is to be forsaken by everything familiar and real, and of the delusionary world that gets invented in their place'. His book is perhaps the most revealing dispatch ever received from the far side of madness.

Customer Reviews

This is possibly the strangest book you will ever read
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be insane? Well this book will give you some idea. Written during the authors more together phases, drawing on notes and diaries written during some of his less together phases. This book is a catalogue of wild imaginings and extreme delusional states, all held together by a belief system based on "nerve contact" with God. What lifts it above being merely the Ramblings of a Madman, is the sheer ability of the author. With some genuinely poetic language and imagery. I for one will remember the "fleeting improvised men" for some time. All I can really say, is that if you have any sort of interest in the weirder side of literature. Buy this book