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1 online resource (vi, 217 pages) |
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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 |
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Appendix: Judge Schreber's Last Case -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"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 successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Published in 1903, this remarkable work documented Schreber's visions, desires, jurisprudence and theology. Far from ending the Judge's legal investments, however, it manifested an intensification of engagement with the law in the attempt to prove that becoming a woman did not deprive the judge of legal competence. Schreber's experience of bodily change and his account of interior life has been the subject of over a century of psychoanalytic and medical scrutiny. With the contemporary trans turn, interest in the Judge's desire to become a woman has intensified. In Laws of Transgression, Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt, and their contributing authors set out to unfold Schreber's complex relation to the law. The collection revisits and rediscovers the Memoirs, not only in its juridical and political implications, but as a transitional and transgressional text that has challenged law and heteronormativity."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2022) |
| Subject |
Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911.
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Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911. Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken
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Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911 fast |
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Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (Schreber, Daniel Paul) fast |
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Judges -- Germany -- Biography
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Transgender women -- Germany -- Biography
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Jurisprudence -- Germany
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Law -- Germany.
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LAW / General
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Law
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Judges
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Jurisprudence
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodrich, Peter, 1954- editor.
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Trüstedt, Katrin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781487539818 |
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1487539819 |
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9781487539825 |
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1487539827 |
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