RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Daniel Paul Schreber, Dementia Praecox, Psychosis
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Asymmetry of relationship: therapeutic processes, while patients don"t. Freud uses materials (like the s case) to come up with new theories. Analyst has notes, can build up material and refer to previous instances of. Such as new diagnosis in the s case. Freud did not produce this case as a result of his analysis or the talking cure. Pa only deals with cases of neurosis, pathological cases but not diseases that require hospitalization s case is beyond the reach of the talking cure, emerges in a different context account. Case became richer and richer: correspondence, institutional material, communications between him and psychiatrist, interpretations of the case, s"s own. S is a lawyer and a judge writes memoir to describe the experience someone who is imprisoned against their express will, adds seriousness of this discussion to argue against hospitalization (he was a very prominent judge) Purpose of writing: value of pursuing truth in science and religion.
