Dee reviewed The Schreber Case by Sigmund Freud (Penguin Classics)
The one time I willingly chose to read into Freudian analysis, I got no Freudian analysis…
3 stars
If there was to be one self-documented case of complex psychosis to have perfect room for Freudian analysis it would be Schreber’s. Yet Freud does so surprisingly little but quote Schreber and make vague gestures to what he thinks to be the case (Schreber wanting to be a woman to restore world order means he’s gay? / he’d rather be demented than gay?)…