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These three glosses on Freud's classic study deal with:
1The onset of Schreber two illnesses. Freud only concerned himself with the later of Schreber's two breakdowns, the onset of which he attributed, in part at least, to the somatic factor of the male climacteric. Niederland points out that this factor cannot be implicated in Schreber's first illness eight or nine years earlier and draws attention to the fact that the first illness began when Schreber was a candidate for the Reichstag, while the second followed his appointment as Senatpraesident of Saxony. In each case reality demanded of him an active masculine role, and the author suggests that this demand was the precipitating factor, which, in both illnesses, released his latent passive feminine tendencies.
2Linguistic observations. The author shows how various apparently meaningless passages of Schreber's Memoirs become intelligible if the full German, and particularly South German, range of meanings of words in the original text is taken into account.
3The 'ascent from Flechsig to God' in Schreber's delusional system. Schreber's progressive deification of his physician, and his unconscious equation of him with his father, is traced through the series of delusional names Schreber gave him.