Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Schreber’s Cases: Escaping from Rational Law 21
6. 2 Primal Scene 39
7. 3 The Office of Pleasure: On Schreber’s Minor Jurisprudence 57
8. 4 Schreber’s Double Process: Legal and Literary Transformations in the Memoirs of My Nervous Illness 68
9. 5 Address without Signature: Schreber’s Memoirs and the Manning-Lamo Chat Logs 106
10. 6 Thoughts Worthy of Being Thought 121
11. 7 Schreber’s Grande Bellezza 152
12. 8 On Gifted Schizophrenia 171
13. 9 The Delusional Metaphor: On Schreber’s Anathema 185
14. Appendix: Judge Schreber’s Last Case 201
15. Contributors 209
16. Index 213