The other Zarathustra: Madness, Schreber and the making of religion in 19th century Germany

Abstract: The religious experiences and religious cosmology that the psychiatric patient Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) described in his memoirs have since their publication in 1903 been interpreted by psychiatrists such as Freud and Lacan as pathological symptoms of an individual mental illness....

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Contributors: Haven, Alexander van der (Other)
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Language:English
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Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. UMI 2010
In:Year: 2009
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