This brilliant, difficult to read book contains a critical review of the literature about Daniel Paul Schreber's psychosis and his book, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903/1955). The memoirs provide an account of actual and delusional persecution, hallucinations, and emotional states of erotic pleasure as God's feminine lover. Santner summarizes the contributions made by psychoanalysis such as Freud (1911), Niederland (1984), Lothane (1992), and others to the extensive literature on Schreber and his Memoirs. Most important, he provides a highly original and illuminating interpretation, telling how Schreber's psychosis reflected and stemmed from the madness of his own time and his own society.