Dossier on repetitions

Hennig's Geradehalter

hi (hji) — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve recently posted about Moritz Schreber’s Geradehalter. Afterwards I noticed that there is another Gradehalter that is attributed to Schreber in various places, notably Wikipedia. As depcited above, this Geradehalter ist somewhat more involved, not just a barrier screwed to the table but straps and loops to be put around the child’s head and body (Hennig and Schreber 1882, 155).

This version of the Gradehalter is not actually Schrebers design, rather it’s designed by Carl Hennig who edited the second and third revised editions of Schreber’s Kallipädie and used the opportunity to replace some of Schreber’s contraptions with his own.

Figure 1: Hennig's Geradehalter (Hennig and Schreber 1882, 156)

I don’t know where the confusion started, William Niederland attributed the second Geradehalter to Hennig but didn’t provide a source for either the illustrations he included, nor Hennig as the designer (Niederland 1959, 155). It seems hardly any of the later authors bothered to check the primary sources.

Figure 2: Hennig's version of the Schulterband (Hennig and Schreber 1882, 151)

References

Hennig, Carl, and Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber. 1882. Das Buch der Erziehung an Leib und Seele: für Eltern, Erzieher und Lehrer. Dritte, stark vermehrte Auflage. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. http://archive.org/details/b28081158.

Niederland, William G. 1959. “Schreber: Father and Son.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 28 (2): 151–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674086.1959.11926132.

Schreber's Geradehalter

hi (hji) — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Moritz Schreber’s contraptions have gained some notoriety since William Niederland connected them to the etiology of Paul Schreber’s psychosis (Niederland 1959). Especially the Geradehalter (straight holder) has gotten a lot of attention. It’s a fairly simple idea: put a physical barrier in front of a child sitting at a table and they can’t slump over the table or lean on their elbows, forcing ‘proper posture’. Here’s how Schreber himself describes it:

Um nun die fehlerfreie Art des Sitzens bei der Arbeit möglich zu machen bedarf es durchaus einer äusseren Vorkehrung; denn selbst die strengste Beaufsichtigung ist nicht im Stande, dies auf die Dauer durchzuführen, schon deshalb nicht, weil es vom Kinde zu viel verlangen hiesse, die Aufmerksamkeit auf seine Arbeit zu concentriren und gleichzeitig immerwährend auch an seine Haltung zu denken. […] Ich liess daher einen Geradhalter anfertigen, der sich nach mehrfachen Proben an meinen eigenen Kindern und an den Pfleglingen meiner orthopädischen Heilanstalt in der nachstehenden Form am zweckmässigsten bewährt hat. […]

Der Geradhalter ist durchweg von Eisen und überall leicht anwendbar. Er ist vermöge der mit e bezeichneten Stellschraube beliebig höher oder tiefer zu stellen, so dass er allen Grössenverhältnissen (auch für Erwachsene) angepasst werden kann. Nachdem zuerst die Höhe des Sitzes regulirt ist, wird der Geradhalter durch Schraube e so gestellt, dass der horizontale abgerundete Stab a b gerade der Schulterhöhe gleichzustehen kommt. Dieser Stab verhindert jeden Versuch des Schiefsitzens, des Vorfallens mit Oberkörper und Kopf, des Andrückens der Brust oder des Unterleibes. Lehnt sich das Kind an den Stab, so ist dies ohne Nachtheil, weil derselbe quer über die Schlüsselbeine und die vorderen Schulterknochen zu liegen kommt. Aber auch ein solches Anlehnen wird das Kind wegen des durch den Druck des harten Körpers auf die Knochen bald entstehenden unangenehmen Gefühles nicht lange fortsetzen und von selbst in die freie straffe Haltung zurückkehren. Bei den kleinsten der schulfähigen Kinder wird der senkrechte Stab c d zwar etwas tief unter die Tafel zu stehen kommen; doch hat auch dies keinen Nachtheil, vielmehr den Nutzen, das Uebereinanderschlagen der Beine zu verhindern. […]

Durch den regelmässigen Gebrauch dieses Geradhalters werden der Beaufsichtigung der Kinder alle jene verdriesslichen und doch fruchtlosen Sorgen und Mühen, welche dieser Punkt ausserdem verursacht, erspart. Ein halbes oder höchstens ganzes Jahr ausnahmslosen Gebrauches ist in der Regel ausreichend, um die Gewohnheit einer regelrechten Haltung bei allen Beschäftigungen im Sitzen so fest zu begründen, dass fernerhin jede künstliche Vorkehrung entbehrlich ist, und nur für die Möglichkeit einer rückfälligen Neigung die Massregel in Bereitschaft bleibt. (Schreber 1858, 203 ff.)

Figure 1: (Schreber 1858, 205)

Now imagine my surprise when I randomly stumbled over Schreber’s contraption on Instagram.

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Things you find on Instagram

The account ohmytechnology that posted the video is interesting in itself, as it is not clear whether they’re actually selling any of the products they’re posting. At least there’s no obvious way to buy them attached to the account. The only links I could find lead to some Telegram channel, at which point I stopped investigating. It’s probably more about the presentation, farming clicks, growing the account itself, rather then selling the products. That fits the presentation as well (wth is going on with the bunny??). But versions of the Geradehalter are readily available for purchase on Amazon. It seems that the idea of using “external measures” to inscribe proper posture into childrens bodies is at least somewhat alive.

There has been some debate over Schreber seniors prominence and whether he’s really the original source for the contraptions. These doubts are fair, it is a pretty obvious design once you’re set on keeping a child sitting straight. What might matter more is the question of how widely contraptions like the Geradehalter were (and are) used. Han Israëls found some evidence that the Geradehalter was indeed widely known and mentions the visceral reaction a woman born in 1909 had, when confronted with pictures of the Geradehalter. Apparently it was never used on her, but existed as a threat for much of her childhood (Israëls 1989, 199).

Besides there are many ways to force a child to sit ‘properly’: My Grandma (born 1943 in Germany) used to tell stories about being made to balance a book on her head while having two more clamped under her arms at the dining table in the name of proper posture. As with the woman above: These techniques were never used on me, but the stories were told as threats of what might be meassures taken if we children didn’t sit up (didn’t work; I have horrible posture).

The Geradehalter is not the only contraption connected to Schreber senior that’s still around. The Schulterband (shoulder strap) he recommends to use to prevent bad shoulder posture (Schreber 1858, 198) seems to be even more popular, granted the versions on Amazon seem mostly aimed at adults.

Figure 2: Moritz Schreber's Schulterband (Schreber 1858, 198).

I don’t have a big conclusion here, it’s just interesting how these things come around.

References

Israëls, Han. 1989. Schreber: Vater und Sohn: eine Biographie. München: Verl. Internat. Psychoanalyse.

Niederland, William G. 1959. “Schreber: Father and Son.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 28 (2): 151–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674086.1959.11926132.

Schreber, Daniel Gottlob Moritz. 1858. Kallipädie, oder, Erziehung zur Schönheit durch naturgetreue und gleichmässige Förderung normaler Körperbildung, lebenstüchtiger Gesundheit und geistiger Veredelung und insbesondere durch möglichste Benutzung specieller Erziehungsmittel: für Aeltern, Erzieher und Lehrer. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. https://archive.org/details/b28081080.

Dossier: Daniel Paul Schreber

hi (hji) — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Collection of literature and other artifacts relating to Paul Schrebers Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken.

(Cover image by Jan Peter Tripp, who, full disclosure, seems not big on that whole having his work on the internet thing http://janpetertripp.com/)

Excuse the wild mix of editions and translations, what edition I put on the list is mostly based on what I have access to. Might clean up later.

The List is by no means complete and I’ll keep expanding it. If you know of anything I should add or want to talk about related stuff send me an email lou@repetitions.de.

Paul Schreber

Paul Schreber is our main subject, the Denkwürdigkeiten have been published numerous times, I’m listing some currently available editions.

German editions:

Schreber, Daniel Paul. (1903) 2016. Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken. Hofenberg.
Schreber, Daniel Paul. (1903) 2003. Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken: nebst Nachträgen. Berlin: Kadmos.

Schreber ([1903] 2016) is much cheaper but doesn’t include the addendum with the court records on Schreber. I haven’t had the chance to verify but those should be included in Schreber ([1903] 2003).

The whole book, including the court records is also available on Projekt Gutenberg.

English edition:

Schreber, Daniel Paul. 2000. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: New York Review Books.

includes the Addenda.

Moritz Schreber

Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber, Paul Schrebers father, and, though mostly absent from the manifest content of Pauls writing, one of the primary figures in subsequent interpretations of them. Further down we’ll see that Moritz has been mobilised in a number of ways to illuminate or even explain Pauls condition.

Moritz wrote a lot of books, I’ll just list the ones I think are the most discussed in the literature on Paul:

Schreber, Daniel Gottlob Moritz. 1858. Kallipädie, oder, Erziehung zur Schönheit durch naturgetreue und gleichmässige Förderung normaler Körperbildung, lebenstüchtiger Gesundheit und geistiger Veredelung und insbesondere durch möglichste Benutzung specieller Erziehungsmittel: für Aeltern, Erzieher und Lehrer. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. https://archive.org/details/b28081080.
Schreber, Daniel Gottlob Moritz. 1862. Pangymnastikon, Oder das Ganze Turnsystem an Einem Einzigen Geräthe Ohne Raumerforderniss als einfachstes Mittel zur Entwicklung höchster und allseitiger Muskelkraft, Körperdurchbildung und Lebenstüchtigkeit. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. https://archive.org/details/daspangymnastiko00schr.
Schreber, Daniel Gottlob Moritz. (1855) 1875. Aerztliche Zimmergymnastik Oder System der Ohne Geräth und Beistand Ueberall Ausführbaren Heilgymnastischen Freiübungen Als Mittel der Gesundheit und Lebenstüchtigkeit. Für Beide Geschlechter, Jedes Alter und Alle Gebrauchszwecke. Zweite unveränderte Auflage. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. https://archive.org/details/b28126385.

Recent Writing on Moritz Schreber

Gilman, Sander L. 2018. Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture. London: Reaktion Books.
Brücker, Tobias. 2024. “Der Alltag Arbeitet Mit an Den Gedanken.” NietzschePOParts. September 2, 2024. https://www.nietzsche-poparts.ch/posts/der-alltag-arbeitet-mit-den-gedanken.

Case Studies

Freud

Figure 1: Freud and Jung when they were buddies.

Freuds study of Schrebers writing marks the start of most of the literature i’m collecting here.

Freud, Sigmund. (1911) 2007. “Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides).” In Zwei Fallberichte: psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia paranoides); eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, by Sigmund Freud, Zweite, unveränderte Auflage. Fischer-Taschenbücher Fischer-Psychologie 10450. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag.

It’s also Published in

Freud, Sigmund. 1945. Werke Aus Den Jahren 1909–1913. Edited by Anna Freud, E. Bibring, W. Hoffer, E. Kris, and O. Isakower. Vol. VIII. Gesammelte Werke. London: Imago Publishing Co., LTD.

and in the Standard Edition:

Freud, Sigmund. 1958. Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.12 (1911-1913). Edited by James Strachey. London: The Hogarth Press.

others

Ferenczi? Jung?

Klein, Melanie. 1946. “Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms.” In Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946-1963, Volume III:1–24. The Writings of Melanie Klein. New York: THE FREE PRESS.
Lacan, Jacques, and Jacques-Alain Miller. 1966. Ecrits. Le Champ Freudien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Lacan, Jacques. 1981. Le Séminaire : Livre III : Les Psychoses (1955-1956). Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. Le Champ Freudien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Lipton, A. A. 1984. “Was the ‘Nervous Illness’ of Schreber a Case of Affective Disorder?” The American Journal of Psychiatry 141 (10): 1236–39. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.10.1236.
Sass, L. A. 1987. “Schreber’s Panopticism: Psychosis and the Modern Soul.” Social Research 54: 101–47.
Allison, David B., Prado de Oliveira, Mark S. Roberts, and Allen S. Weiss, eds. 1988. Psychosis and Sexual Identity: Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case. Illustrated Edition. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press.
Busse, Gerhard. 1991. “Schreber, Freud Und Die Suche Nach Dem Vater Über Die Realitätsschaffende Kraft Einer Wissenschaftlichen Hypothese.” Europäische Hochschulschriften : Reihe 3, Geschichte Und Ihre Hilfswissenschaften 480. Frankfurt am Main [u.a: Lang.
Hentschel, Rüdiger. 1992. “Sache selbst und Nichtdenkungsgedanke Husserls phänomenlogische Region bei Schreber, Adorno und Derrida.” Wien [u.a: Turia & Kant.
Sass, Louis A. 1994a. “‘My So-Called Delusions’: Solipsism, Madness, and the Schreber Case.” Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 25 (1): 70–103. https://doi.org/10.1163/156916294X00124.
Sass, Louis A. 1994b. The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732560.
Zuk, Gerald H., and Carmen V. Zuk. 1995. “Freud’s Theory of Paranoid Delusion Based on the Schreber Case Contrasted with Related Theories.” Contemporary Family Therapy 17 (2): 209–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02252359.
Erdheim, Mario. 1996. “Canetti und Freud als Leser von Schrebers „Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken‘.” In Psychoanalyse heute: Klinische und kulturtheoretische Perspektiven, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Ralf Zwiebel, 159–77. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87290-6_9.
Zuk, G. H., and C. V. Zuk. 1998. “Schreber, Perceval, and Van Gogh: Three Eminent Cases Considered from the Perspective of Four Characteristics of Psychosis.” Contemporary Family Therapy 20 (2): 139–46. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025021308030.
Gottlieb, Sue. 2006. “Some Thoughts on Schreber (and Freud): Depression, Paranoia and a Delusional System.” British Journal of Psychotherapy 22 (4): 427–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.2006.tb00302.x.
Martin, Graeme. 2007. “Schreber’s ‘Bellowing Miracle’: A New Content Analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness.” Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 195 (8): 640–46. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e31811f404c.
Tata, Michael Angelo. 2010. “From Daniel Paul Schreber through the Dr. Phil Family: Modernity, Neurology and the Cult of the Case Study Superstar.” In Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950, edited by Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail, 163–83. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230278004_9.
Dalzell, Thomas G. 2011. Freud’s Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis. 1st ed. Oxford: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429475078.
Shengold, Leonard. 2013. “Child Abuse and Deprivation: Soul Murder 1.” In If You Can’t Trust Your Mother, Who Can You Trust?, 1st ed., 235–49. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429475726-12.
Lang, Birgit, and Katie Sutton. 2016. “The Queer Cases of Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Scientific Study of Homosexuality, 1890s–1920s.” German History 34 (3): 419–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw038.
We’re All President Schreber: On Culture, Narcissism and Paranoia. 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2L8FXrIYvg.
Benjamin, Walter. 2020. “Bücher von Geisteskranken.” In Gesammelte Schriften. Band IV, edited by Tillman Rexroth, Rolf Tiedemann, and Hermann Schweppenhäuser, 6. Auflage, 615–19. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 934. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

The tyrannical Father

The Literature focusing on the real Moritz Schreber as the central figure of Schrebers illness, starts with Niederlands publications on Moritz’ books. While Niederland remains somewhat conservative with such diagnoses, later authors make Moritz Schrebers methods of child rearing, that he also supposedly applied in the upbringing of his own children, directly responsible for Pauls illness.

Niederland, William G. 1959. “Schreber: Father and Son.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 28 (2): 151–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674086.1959.11926132.
Niederland, William G. 1984. The Schreber Case: Psychoanalytic Profile of a Paranoid Personality. Expanded ed. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press : Distributed by L. Erlbaum Associates.
Schatzman, Morton. 1973. Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family. New York, Random House. http://archive.org/details/soulmurderpersec00scha.
Miller, Alice. (1983) 2022. Am Anfang war Erziehung. 29. Auflage. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 951. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Israëls, Han. 1989. Schreber: Vater und Sohn: eine Biographie. München: Verl. Internat. Psychoanalyse.

Israëls (1989) aims to be a correction to various discussions of Moritz Schreber, substantiated with extentsive archival work, Israëls argues that Moritz Schreber has been severely misrepresented both with regards to his general fame and his person as a house tyrant. His work has a clear anti-psychoanalytic bend.

Lothane, Zvi. 1992. In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

Lothane (1992) picks up Israëls thread, both going further in trying to rehabilitate Moritz Schreber and criticizing Israëls for downplaying his general fame and accomplishment. With extensive discussions of Paul Schrebers psychiatrists as well as her court case Lothane shifts the focus of the discussion away from the father to the institutions Paul Schreber is dealing with.

Stobaugh, Nathan. 2018. “Don’t Wake Daddy: Martin Kippenberger and the Schreber Case.” October 166 (166): 73–104. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00334.
Müller-Münch, Ingrid. 2013. Die geprügelte Generation: Kochlöffel, Rohrstock und die Folgen | Ein eindringlicher Bericht aus den Kinderzimmern der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre. 8th ed. München Zürich: Piper Taschenbuch.

(Müller-Münch 2013) is an example of a recent popularization of Schreber the abusive father.

Schreber & (Anti-)Psychiatry

Beyer, Bernhard. 1912. Die Bestrebungen zur Reform des Irrenwesens Material zu einem Reichs-Irrengesetz ; für Ärzte und Laien. Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschrift Erg.-Bd. Halle a.S: Marhold.
Mannoni, Maud. 1970. le psychiatre, son “fou” et la psychanalyse. Le Champ Freudien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. http://archive.org/details/lepsychiatresonf0000unse.

Notably referenced in Anti Oedipus for claiming Schrebers court case to be the first success of Anti-Psychiatry (Deleuze and Guattari 1972, 437; Mannoni 1970, 165).

Mannoni, Octave. 1969. “Schreber Als Schreiber.” In Clefs Pour L’imaginaire : Ou l’Autre Scène, by Octave Mannoni, 75–99. Le Champ Freudien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Lothane, Zvi. 1992. In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
Hackler, Ruben Marc. 2010. “Die Allianz von Recht und Medizin um 1903: eine Fallstudie zu Daniel Paul Schrebers Selbstbehauptungsstrategien im Rechtsstreit um seine ‘Geschäftstüchtigkeit’.” BIOS - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufanalysen 23 (1): 114–26. https://nbn-resolving.org/ urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-354301.
Scharfetter, Christian. 2011. “Ich-Zerfall und Selbstrettung: Daniel Paul Schreber.” In Spurensuche in der Psychopathologie. Germany: Wissenschaft & Praxis, Verlag, Dr. Brauner.
Steiner, John. 2011. “Gaze, Dominance, and Humiliation in the Schreber Case.” In Seeing and Being Seen, 54–72. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203806364-9.
Woods, Angela. 2011a. “Conference Report – ‘Daniel Paul Schreber Centenary – 200 Years of Sonnenstein’.” h-madness. April 26, 2011. https://historypsychiatry.com/2011/04/26/conference-report-%e2%80%9cdaniel-paul-schreber-centenary-200-years-of-sonnenstein%e2%80%9d/.

More information on this conference is available here. The full conference programme can be found here.

Woods, Angela. 2011b. “‘I Suffer in an Unknown Manner That Is Hieroglyphical’: Jung and Babette En Route to Freud and Schreber.” History of the Present 1 (2): 244–58. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.1.2.0244.
Lothane, Zvi. 2011. “The Teachings of Honorary Professor of Psychiatry Daniel Paul Schreber, J.D., To Psychiatrists and Psychoanalysts, or Dramatology’s Challenge to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.” The Psychoanalytic Review 98 (6): 775–815. https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2011.98.6.775.
Hornstein, Gail. 2018. “Free Speech.” In Agnes’s Jacket, 1st ed., 167–73. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315083728-17.
Müller, Thomas R. 2020. “Schreber, Daniel Paul.” Biographisches Archiv der Psychiatrie. 2020. https://biapsy.de/index.php/de/9-biographien-a-z/277-schreber-daniel-paul.
Brückner, Burkhart. 2016. “Animal Magnetism, Psychiatry and Subjective Experience in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Friedrich Krauß and His Nothschrei.” Medical History 60 (1): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.66.
Leistle, Bernhard, and Bernhard Leistle. 2017. “‘The Order of the World’: A Responsive Phenomenology of Schreber’s Memoirs.” In Anthropology and Alterity, 264–91. United Kingdom: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315616759-18.

Flechsig

Figure 2: Paul Flechsig, Schrebers first Psychiatrist

Steinberg, H., and D. Carius. 2004. “Arzt und Patient: Paul Flechsig und Daniel Paul Schreber.” Der Nervenarzt 75 (9): 933–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-004-1798-0.
Steinberg, H. 2005. “Paul Flechsig (1847–1929) — ein Hirnforscher als Psychiater.” In 200 Jahre Psychiatrie an der Universität Leipzig: Personen und Konzepte, edited by Matthias C. Angermeyer and Holger Steinberg, 81–120. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28048-0_2.
Splett, T., and H. Steinberg. 2003. “Die Therapie der Hysterie im 19. Jahrhundert - Wie stand die deutsche Psychiatrie zur Kastration?” Fortschritte der Neurologie Psychiatrie 71 (1): 45–52. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2003-36685.
Kittler, Friedrich A. 1984. “Flechsig/Schreber/Freud. Ein Nachrichtennetzwerk Der Jahrhundertwende.” Der Wunderblock. Zeitschrift Für Psychoanalyse 11 (12): 56–68.

TODO Weber

Schreber & the libidinal economy

Canetti, Elias. (1960) 2021. Masse und Macht. 36. Auflage. Fischer-Taschenbücher 6544. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.
Deleuze, Gilles. 1972. “Anti-Oedipus I, Lecture 06, 15 February 1972.” https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-06-10/.

The reference in the Anti-Oedipus Lecture stands out in that Deleuze explicitly connects Schreber with ’transvestites’ taking hormones (thanks @elderan for the pointer).

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1972. L’ Anti-Œdipe. Capitalisme et schizophrénie 1. Paris: Éd. de Minuit.
Hocquenghem, Guy. (1972) 1993. Homosexual Desire. Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lyotard, Jean-François. 1974. Économie Libidinale. Collection Critique. Paris: Éditions de minuit.
Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1980. “Devinir-Intense, Devinir-Animal, Devenir-Imperceptible.” In Mille plateaux. Capitalisme et schizophrénie 2. Paris: Éd. de Minuit.

Deleuze also mentions Schreber briefly in Difference and Repetition, I don’t know whether Guattari talks about Schreber in any of his solo work.

Santner, Eric L. 1996. My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
Chun, Wendy Hui-Kyong. 2006. Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Maia, Rousiley C. M. 1996. “Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe: From the Antithesis of the Crowd Man to the Madness of Power.” Thesis Eleven, no. 45: 28–38.
Kemp, Jonathan. 2009. “Schreber and the Penetrated Male.” In Deleuze and Queer Theory, 150–67. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748634064-010.
Van der Haven, Alexander, and Iris Edelheiser. 2011. “Eine Erlöserin Mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers Religiöse Offenbarungen.” Edelheiser, Iris (Hg.): Von Aposteln Bis Zionisten: Religiöse Kultur Im Leipzig Des Kaiserreichs. Marburg, 177–84. https://www.academia.edu/download/6377352/Van_der_Haven_Schreber_als_Erloeser.pdf.
Haven, Alexander van der. 2015. “„The War and Transcendental Order: A Critique of Violence in Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Daniel Paul Schreber ‘.” Galili Shah. Ar (Hrsg.), Texturen Des Krieges: Körper, Schrift Und Der Erste Weltkrieg, Göttingen, 115–44.
Laqueur, Thomas W. 2015. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400874514.
Majaca, Antonia. 2016. “Little Daniel Before the Law: Algorithmic Extimacy and the Rise of the Paranoid Apparatus.” E-Flux, September 2016. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67140/little-daniel-before-the-law-algorithmic-extimacy-and-the-rise-of-the-paranoid-apparatus/.
Van der Haven, Alexander. 2017. “God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion.” In Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover, 176–98. Brill. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/edcollbook/title/35021.pdf#page=186.
Rotem, Noga. 2020. “World-Craving: Rahel Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Strange Promise of Paranoia.” Political Theory 48 (2): 192–217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591719868954.
Paiella, Giorgina Samira. 2020. “Madness, Modernity, and Mechanization: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, the Feminized Industrial Laborer, and the Rise of Automation.” Configurations 28 (2): 255–80. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/755040.
Adleman, Daniel. 2021. “Purloined Paranoia: The Insistence of Schreber.” Canadian Review of American Studies 51 (1): 44–62. https://doi.org/10.3138/CRAS-2019-011.
Genosko, G. 2023. “Daniel Paul Schreber as Anti-Oedipus: More Lessons from the Incipit.” In Analysis 7 (2): 100379-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100379.
Roberts, Mark S. 1996. “Wired: Schreber as Machine, Technophobe, and Virtualist.” Tdr : Drama Review 40 (3): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1146545.

Schreber & the Law

Goodrich, Peter. 2015. “The Judge’s Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber.” Law and Critique 26 (2): 117–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9154-z.
Goodrich, P. 2016. “Miscarriages of Transmission: Body, Text, and Method.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 48: 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2016.06.006.
Goodrich, Peter. 2018. Schreber’s Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition. 1st ed. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: University Press.
Goodrich, Peter, and Katrin Trüstedt, eds. 2022. Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press.

Schreber & Judaism

Geller, Jay. 1992. “The Unmanning of the Wandering Jew.” American Imago 49 (26): 227-.
Gilman, Sander L. 1993. Freud, Race, and Gender. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17ppchj.
Santner, Eric L. 1996. My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
Geller, Jay. 2007. On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292264.
Geller, Jay. 2011. The Other Jewish Question Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293117.

Schreber & Literature

Wallen, Martin. 1991. “Body Linguistics in Schreber’s ‘Memoirs’ and De Quincey’s ‘Confessions’.” Mosaic (Winnipeg) 24 (2): 93–108.
Pekar, Thomas. 1994. “Das Essen und die Macht. Zum Diätdispositiv bei Daniel Paul Schreber und Franz Kafka.” Colloquia Germanica 27 (4): 333–49.
Butler, Erik. 2008. “The Schreber Case Revisited: Realpolitik and Writing in the Asylum.” New German Critique 35 (2): 171–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-007.
Butler, Erik. 2010. Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, New York: Camden House.
Fernie, Ewan. 2013. The Demonic: Literature and Experience. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082300.
Pustan, Emma. 2016. “Schreber’s Memoirs: The Crisis of the Autobiographical Pact and the Ethics of Taxonomy.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 2 (2): 133–43.
Conway, Joe. 2018. “Words Are for the Birds: ‘Non-reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech’ in the Writings of Schreber and Poe.” In Mocking Bird Technologies, 120–42. United States: Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823278510-007.
Bagai, Robin. 2023. “Schreber and Rena.” In Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen, 1st ed., 1:74–80. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257554-12.

Trans Schreber

For our purposes, reading Schreber as trans […] isn’t a matter of rescuing an identity from the archive of historical repression and transposing it onto the present. Instead, on the one hand, it’s a matter of affirming Schreber’s assertion of the veracity of her fantasies and, on the other hand, of tracking the ways that gender and its vicissitudes are invested in by those who claim to love and/or hate us. (Smart and Warzer 2024)

The following engage with Schreber as a trans woman, or at least with Pauls transformation into a woman being related to some kind of transsexual desire.

Zagria. 2010. “Daniel Paul Schreber (1842 - 1911) Jurist, Mental Patient, Theologian.” A Gender Variance Who’s Who. May 23, 2010. https://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/05/daniel-paul-schreber-1842-1911-jurist.html.
Salah, Trish. 2018. “To Return to Schreber. Trans Literatures as Psychoanalysis.” In Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies: In Transition, edited by Oren Gozlan, 1st ed. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351058995.
Lavery, Grace. 2020. “Egg Theory’s Early Style.” Tsq: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7 (3): 383–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8553034.
Gherovici, Patricia. 2022. “7 Schreber’s Grande Bellezza.” In Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber, edited by Peter Goodrich and Katrin Trüstedt, 152–70. University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487539818-009.
Wark, McKenzie. 2022. “Dear Cis Analysts.” Parapraxis, 2022. https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/dear-cis-analysts.
Linge, Ina. 2023. “Trans-Investiture. Writing Gender Transition in the 1890s and 1920s.” In Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11464019.
Lillieefranks. 2024. “Daniel Paul Schreber And the Ambiguity of Trans History.” Medium. March 19, 2024. https://medium.com/@lillieefranks/daniel-paul-schreber-and-the-ambiguity-of-trans-history-597c8e9913e7.
Prado de Oliveira, Luiz Eduardo, ed. 2024. Être Homme, Devenir Femme, 1900-2024: Les Trans et Schreber. Études Psychanalytiques. Paris: l’Harmattan.
Smart, Willa, and Beckett Warzer. 2024. “Passions and Perversions. The Symbolic Maps of Contagion.” Parapraxis, 2024. https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/passions-and-perversions.

While the above are in solidarity with transsexual desire there is at least one transmisic reading of Schreber, citing Schreber as the paradigmatic case of a delusional man thinking to be a woman:

Millot, Catherine. (1983) 1990. Horsexe: Essay on Transsexuality. Translated by Kenneth Hylton. Brooklyn, N.Y: Autonomedia.

Novels

Huizing, Klaas. 2008. In Schrebers Garten: Roman. München: Knaus.
Pheby, Alex. 2015. Playthings. Norwich: Galley Beggar Press.

Companion playlist by Alex Pheby: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/playlist-playthings

Theater & Radio

Churchill, Caryl. 1972. Schreber’s Nervous Illness. BBC Radio 3. https://archive.org/details/caryl-churchill-schrebers-nervous-illness-1972-07-25.
Burckhardt, Martin. 1996. Die Offenbarung des Daniel Paul Schreber. Bayerischer Rundfunk. https://hoerspiele.dra.de/detailansicht/1374083.
Androsch, Peter. 1999. Schreber. Oper nach einem Libretto von Franz Kaiser. Wien: Verlag Doblinger.
Muck, Jürgen, and Jan Peter Tripp. 2015. Die Seele ist hin oder Der ewige Schreber: ein Theaterstück in drei Akten. 1. Aufl. Neue Szene, Band 4. Leipzig: Leipziger Literaturverlag.
The Trans-migration of the Body of Schreber into a Woman. 2017. Jefferson Market Library, NY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx0QTyxKTcM.

Art & Music

Stecker, Heidi. 2007. “Zeitgenössische Kunst: Kippenberger und die Schrebers.” Deutsches Ärzteblatt 104 (20). https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/article.asp?id=55727.

EL PALOMAR: Schreber is a Woman

Video Installation by EL PALOMAR (http://elpalomar.sexy/). They have a making of video on vimeo:

One bed for Schreber / how was Schreber is a Woman done from El Palomar on Vimeo.

The soundtrack is also available as an album. (it’s great!)

https://el-palomar.bandcamp.com/album/schreber-is-a-woman

Crowmeat Bob

Mostly name drops in ensemble names but passes the vibes check so included!

https://crowmeatbob.bandcamp.com/

Judge Schrebers Avian Choir

Judge Schreber and Her Magic Band

https://crowmeatbob.bandcamp.com/album/big-ears-2022

Exhibitions

Leipzig

The Saxonian Museum of Psychiatry in Leipzig has an exhibition related to Paul Schreber https://www.psychiatriemuseum.de/ausstellung.html