Memoirs of My Illness--NP

[Richard Romeo]

Hi all--

I'm reading this title--I find it pretty fascinating

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the 
first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of 
his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous 
architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God.
                       It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis 
was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had 
transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one 
remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem 
the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, 
however, he could only do by first being
transformed from a man into a woman. . . ."

Rich
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