Daniel Paul Schreber

I have sought to show these infringements in a special work, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, and at the same time the necessity for creating a new conception of libido which shall be in harmony with the energic conception.

Freud himself was forced to a discussion of his original conception of libido when he tried to apply its energic point of view to a well-known case of dementia precox, the so-called Schreber case.

in this case we had to deal among other things with that well-known problem in the psychology of dementia praecox the loss of adaptation to reality the peculiar phenomenon consisting in a special tendency of these patients to construct an inner world of fantasy of their own surrendering for this purpose their adaptation to reality as a part of the phenomenon the lack of sociability or emotional rapport will be well known to you all this representing a striking disturbance of the function of reality through considerable psychological study of these patients we discovered that this lack of adaptation to reality is compensated by a progressive increase in the creation of fantasies this goes so far that the dream world is for the patient more real than external reality the patient schreber described by freud found for this phenomenon an excellent figurative description in his delusion of the end of the world his loss of reality is thus very concretely represented the dynamic conception of this phenomenon is very clear we say that the libido withdrew itself more and more from the external world consequently entered the inner world the world of fantasies and had there to create as a compensation for the lost external world a so-called equivalent of reality this compensation is built up piece by piece and it is most interesting to observe the psychological materials of which this inner world is composed this way of conceiving the transposition and displacement of the libido has been made by the everyday use of the term its original pure sexual meaning being very rarely recalled in general the word libido is used practically in so harmless a sense that clapa areta in a conversation once remarked that we could as well use the word interest The manner in which this expression is generally used has given rise to a way of using the term that made it possible to explain Schreber's end of the world by withdrawal of the libido.

On this occasion, Freud recalled his original sexual definition of the libido and tried to arrive at an understanding with the change which in the meantime had taken place.

In his article on Schreber, he discusses the question whether what the psychoanalytic school calls libido and conceives of as interest from erotic sources coincides with interest generally speaking.

You see that putting the problem in this way, Freud asked the question which Clapparetta practically answered.

Freud discusses the question here whether the loss of reality noticed in Dementia Precox, to which I drew attention in my book, the psychology of Dementia Precox is due entirely to the withdrawal of erotic interest, or if this coincides with the so-called objective interest in general.

I have sought to show these infringements in a special work, Wandlungen und Symbol der Libido, and at the same time the necessity for creating a new conception of libido which shall be in harmony with the energic conception.

Freud himself was forced to a discussion of his original conception of libido when he tried to apply its energic point of view to a well-known case of dementia precox, the so-called Schreber case.

in this case we had to deal among other things with that well-known problem in the psychology of dementia praecox the loss of adaptation to reality the peculiar phenomenon consisting in a special tendency of these patients to construct an inner world of fantasy of their own surrendering for this purpose their adaptation to reality As a part of the phenomenon, the lack of sociability or emotional rapport will be well known to you all, this representing a striking disturbance of the function of reality.

Through considerable psychological study of these patients, we discovered that this lack of adaptation to reality is compensated by a progressive increase in the creation of fantasies.

this goes so far that the dream world is for the patient more real than external reality the patient schreber described by freud found for this phenomenon an excellent figurative description in his delusion of the end of the world his loss of reality is thus very concretely represented the dynamic conception of this phenomenon is very clear we say that the libido withdrew itself more and more from the external world consequently entered the inner world the world of fantasies and had there to create as a compensation for the lost external world a so-called equivalent of reality this compensation is built up piece by piece and it is most interesting to observe the psychological materials of which this inner world is composed this way of conceiving the transposition and displacement of the libido has been made by the everyday use of the term its original pure sexual meaning being very rarely recalled in general the word libido is used practically in so harmless a sense that clapa areta in a conversation once remarked that we could as well use the word interest The manner in which this expression is generally used has given rise to a way of using the term that made it possible to explain Schreber's end of the world by withdrawal of the libido.

On this occasion, Freud recalled his original sexual definition of the libido and tried to arrive at an understanding with the change which in the meantime had taken place.

In his article on Schreber, he discusses the question whether what the psychoanalytic school calls libido and conceives of as interest from erotic sources coincides with interest generally speaking.

You see that putting the problem in this way, Freud asked the question which Klepper-Retta practically answered.

I've sought to show these infringements in a special work, Verwandlungen und Symbole der Libido, and at the same time the necessity for creating a new conception of libido which shall be in harmony with the energic conception.

Freud himself was forced to a discussion of his original conception of libido when he tried to apply its energic point of view to a well-known case of dementia praecox, the so-called Schreber case.

In this case, we had to deal, among other things, with that well-known problem in the psychology of dementia praecox, the loss of adaptation to reality, the peculiar phenomenon consisting in a special tendency of these patients to construct an inner world of fantasy of their own surrendering for this purpose their adaptation to reality.

As a part of the phenomenon, the lack of sociability or emotional rapport will be well known to you all, this representing a striking disturbance of the function of reality.

Through considerable psychological study of these patients, we discovered that this lack of adaptation to reality is compensated by a progressive increase in the creation of fantasies.

This goes so far that the dream world is for the patient more real than external reality.

The patient, Schreber, described by Freud, found for this phenomenon an excellent figurative description in his delusion of the end of the world.

His loss of reality is thus very concretely represented.