This book contains a critical review of the literature about Daniel Paul Schreber's psychosis and his book, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness,1 as well as a highly original and illuminating interpretation showing how Schreber's psychosis reflects and stems from the madness of his own time and his own society. Schreber's Memoirs present an account of actual and delusional persecution, hallucinations, and passionate states of erotic pleasure as God's feminine lover.

Santner describes the situations that triggered Schreber's two