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Laws of transgression : the return of Judge Schreber /

"Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911), a Chamber President of the German Supreme Court who was confined to a mental asylum after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a succ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goodrich, Peter, 1954- (Editor ), Trüstedt, Katrin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Schreber's Cases: Escaping from Rational Law
  • 2 Primal Scene
  • 3 The Office of Pleasure: On Schreber's Minor Jurisprudence
  • 4 Schreber's Double Process: Legal and Literary Transformations in the Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
  • 5 Address without Signature: Schreber's Memoirs and the Manning-Lamo Chat Logs
  • 6 Thoughts Worthy of Being Thought
  • 7 Schreber's Grande Bellezza
  • 8 On Gifted Schizophrenia
  • 9 The Delusional Metaphor: On Schreber's Anathema
  • Appendix: Judge Schreber's Last Case
  • Contributors
  • Index.