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‘THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS YET THERE IS METHOD IN‘T' 1
Author(s) -
Brown Muriel Mitcheson
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2006.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , object (grammar) , meaning (existential) , psychoanalysis , object relations theory , epistemology , social psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalytic theory , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Freud's paper on the Schreber Case is considered from a contemporary perspective drawing on the object relations theorists. Some of Winnicott's ideas are used to illustrate how one might understand Schreber's predicament today. Although Freud's views on the role of repressed homosexual longings in the aetiology of Schreber's illness are not endorsed his prescience in the search for meaning in the patient's discourse is applauded.