A narrativa paranoica e sua apropriação por Sigmund Freud: uma análise histórico literária do caso Schreber

Abstract

This analysis of Sigmund Freud s Schreber case in its intertextuality with Karl Abraham s written works on psycosis suggests that, while reading Schreber s autobiography and beyond the intention autoris, Freud would have appropriated the paranoid narrative inherent in it, following his characteristic literary style, which, in writing, would resemble the processes about which he theorizes. Therefore, the paranoid narrative would appear in the Schreber case following Freud s litigious posture to claim for his own credit the supposed intellectual originality in the field of psychosis in face of his precursor, Karl Abraham. In order to recover the historicity of Freud s text on Schreber and to have a methodological resource for approaching such text from a relatively recent branch of Literally Theory. So, three different levels of negotiations inherent in Freud s Schreber case are shown: 1) Intrapsychanalitical negotiations; 2) epistemological negotiations; 3) stylistic negotiations. One comes to the conclusion that Freud s Schreber case was written considering the historical context, reflecting the power relationships, which were valid at that time, and within which Freud felt threatened in respect to his authority and to his intent to institutionalize Psychoanalysis as a subject, because of the crushing queries from his dissident students about his theories. The first chapter of this thesis gives a general idea of the theme; the second chapter shows Daniel Paul Schreber s written works, emphasizing his autobiography, Memoirs pf My Nervous Illness, and discusses this author s statue of literariness; the third chapter introduces a wide range of Schreber s autobiography commentators, examining Sigmund Freud s and Jacques Lacan s studies of this work; the fourth chapter describes the methodological aspects of the approach used in Freud s text about Schreber, based in the new historicism critical analyses the narrative of Freud s Schreber case in its intertextuality with Abraham s writtings about psychosis.