Summary

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

EDITORS' NOTES


Part l Psychosis

Chapter l
Lacan and the Problem of Psychosis
William J.Richardson

Chapter 2
Schreber's Other
Antonio Quinet

Chapter 3
Writing and Madness: Schreber als Schreiber
Octave Mannoni

Chapter 4
Figures of Delusion
Jean-François Rabain

Chapter 5
The Other as Muse: On the Ontology and
Aesthetics of Narcissism
Allen S. Weiss

Chapter 6
The Institution of Rot
Michel de Certeau


Part II Sexual Identity

Chapter 7
Paranoiac Fantasies: Sexual Difference,
Homosexuality, Law of the Father
Micheline Enriquez

Chapter 8
The Din of the Celestial Birds or
Why I Crave to Become a Woman
Alphonso Lingis

Chapter 9
Vertiginous Sexuality:
Schreber's Commerce With God
Jean-François Lyotard

Chapter 10
On President Schreber's Transsexual Delusion
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel

Chapter 11
Schreber, Ladies and Gentlemen
Prado de Oliveira

Chapter 12
The Pathogenesis of Creation
or the Liberation of Women
Octave Mannoni


Part III The New Schreber Texts

Introduction to the New Schreber Texts
Han Israëls

The New Texts

A. [Poem for the Silver Wedding Anniversary
of His Sister Anna] (1889)

B. [Poem About Swans Which His Mother Gave as a Gift
to His Nephew Fritz Jung] (undated)

C. [Christening Speech for a Granddaughter
of His Sister Anna] (1904)

D. [Poem for His Mother 's
Ninetieth Birthday] (1905)

E. [Poem for the Fiftieth Birthday
of His Wife] ( 1907)

F. [Declaration About Schreber Societies] (1907)

G. [Texts Written in the Leipzig-Dosen Mental Hospital
(1907-1910)

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX