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SOURCE: Santner, Eric L. “Freud, Schreber, and The Passions of Psychoanalysis.” In My Own Private Germany: Daniel Schreber's Secret History of Modernity, pp. 19-62. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
In the following essay, Santner identifies Schreber's individual paranoia with a larger German cultural condition that led to the rise of National Socialism in the early twentieth century.
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Psychoanalysts have long known about the transferential dimension of literary production, about the ways in which texts provide opportunities for their writers to act out or, ideally, work through, some of the very issues animating the subject matter of the text. This insight applies as much to the texts produced by psychoanalysts as by any other group of writers. And, indeed, Sigmund Freud, who founded psychoanalysis to a large extent on the basis of his own self-analysis, was profoundly aware of this transferential dimension of his own literary production. As it...
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