Fairbairn reviews some of the important literature on the Schreber case, including Schreber's own account of his illness, Freud's analysis, the theory of paranoia by which Freud explained Schreber's illness, and the recent contributions of Macalpine and Hunter. He points out that Freud produced his work on the Schreber case before he had fully formed his ideas of aggression and the ego, and that he never revised in the light of these newer ideas his theories based on the Schreber case. Fairbairn reformulates the dynamics in this case with emphasis