Laws of transgression : the return of Judge Schreber /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Goodrich, Peter, 1954- (Editor), Trüstedt, Katrin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911.
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911. > Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken.
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911
Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (Schreber, Daniel Paul)
1800-1899
Judges > Germany > Biography.
Transgender women > Germany > Biography.
Jurisprudence > Germany.
Law > Germany.
Juges > Allemagne > Biographies.
Transgenres féminins > Allemagne > Biographies.
Droit > Allemagne.
LAW / General
Law
Judges
Jurisprudence
Germany
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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