Freud to Ferenczi, December, the 3rd, 1910 :"I am Schreber, nothing but Schreber"

"I am touched and overjoyed to learn how much you appreciate the greatness of Schreber's mind"

Jung to Freud, September, the 29th, 1910

"I share your enthousiasm for Schreber: it is a kind of revelation"

Freud to Jung, October, the 1st, 1910

"I am all Schreber and will make a point of bringing the manuscrit to Munich for you"

Freud to Jung, December, the 3rd ,1910

"This step in psychiatry is probably the boldest that we have taken so far"

Freud to Ferenczi, December, the 16th, 1910

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, by Daniel Paul Schreber, is the best psychiatric textbook ever written, according to Freud. Schreber should have been a professor of psychiatry. Nevertheless, from 1911 to 1949, Schreber and his book have been forgotten, untill Katan started studying psychosis based in the book. In the USA, Niederland followed him ; in Great-Britain, Fairbairn ; in Germany, Baumeyer ; in Italy, Calasso ; but, amongst all, Lacan in France, who learned with these previous efforts.

"What is amazing is that Schreber is a child of Aufklärung, and even one of its last glories"

(Lacan, The Seminary, 3rd book, Psychosis)

And, after Lacan, Mannoni, Green or Melman, in France ; Israëls, in the Netherlands, Devreese, in Belgium ; Busse, in Germany ; Kemple and O'Neill, in Canada ; Lothane, Weiss, Allison, Roberts, in the USA ; Katz, in Brazil ; and still others, everywhere.

Schreber is not anymore an inspiration to psychoanalysis only, but also to opera, ballet, movies and theater. Psychosis, which has been in the outskirts of mankinds, appears at its very core.