ABSTRACT
S. Freud's interpretation of D. Schreber is perhaps the most discussed case in psychoanalytic history. Freud's interpretation of the Schreber case, Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides), was first published in 1911 in the Jahrbuch co-edited by Freud and Eugen Bleuler. The first part of Freud's text gives the rudiments of the case history, and it lays the foundations for his interpretation in parts two and three. According to Freud, the precipitating cause of Schreber's paranoia was an outburst of homosexual libido in relation to Flechsig. It was Schreber's finding this intolerable, in Freud's view, that made him repress it, and withdraw his libido from the outside world. As for Schreber, Freud admits that his persecution by Flechsig preceded his phantasy of the end of the world, suggesting that the return of the repressed took place before the repression proper.
