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And so I believe I am not mistaken in expecting that a very special palm of victory will eventually be mine. … And so I close in the hope that favorable stars will watch over the success of my labor.
It remains for the future to decide whether there is more delusion in my theory than I should like to admit, or whether there is more truth in Schreber's delusion than other people are as yet prepared to believe.
Interpretations are opinions about facts of life. They are arrived at by different methods. Opinions are also facts: They have their own life.
Here are a few facts about Daniel Paul Schreber. He lived, loved, and suffered mostly in Leipzig, from 1842 to 1911. He had a career as a judge, was married once, and had no children. He had three major life crises, all followed by emotional disorder and hospitalizations: 1884-1885 (age 42-43), 1893-1902 (age 51-60) and 1907 to his death (age 65-69).
Schreber's life can be studied with several methods. By means of the historical method, be it biographical or autobiographical, we can study the course of the events in health and disease. The historical method aims to get at the facts and seeks to understand their meanings