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My life with Paul Schreber
HENRY ZVI LOTHANE
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
Vol. 30, No. 1, 9-21
DOI: doi.org
This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected as follows.
Page, 14, right-hand column, paragraph 2. The final sentence of this paragraph has been corrected to read:
This artificial theory did not explain what the son experienced as an adult, as Niederland admitted in 1963.
Page 18, left-hand column, paragraph 3. This paragraph has been corrected to read:
In 1899 Schreber informed Weber that the aforementioned temporary incompetency ruling was invalid. Weber was happy to oblige and, based on his report, following “the decision of Dresden District Court on 13th March 1900 the plaintiff was placed under tutelage as an insane person (wegen Geistekrakheit)” (Schreber, p. 475). The Supreme Court judges duly noted that even though “the Memoirs were the product of a morbid imagination and … the author … mentally deranged” (p. 513), “placing under tutelage cannot be used as a means of preventing a person with a mental defect but otherwise capable of managing his affairs from undertaking one single wrong action … ” (p. 514; all italics in the original) and ruled that “the tutelage inflicted on the plaintiff be rescinded” (p. 516). In a 1903 lecture reported in 1905, Weber acted the sore loser complaining that Schreber should not have been set free.