ABSTRACT
IN THIS CHAPTER, we will explore selected aspects of two cases in some detail. The first is Freud's Schreber case, 1 the other is drawn from my clinical practice, Schreber is one of Freud's great case portrayals, one of the writings in which Freud transforms case study into a new genre. It not only explores a clinical entity, but it also seems to illuminate and stretch the human experience. My own case is more modest, but has the advantage of being mine. I believe that the comparison of the psychotic Schreber who wished to be a woman, and a contemporary psychotic woman, may offer some fruitful parallels and contrasts. In addition to the more general goal of exploring psychotic experience and its implications for what it means to be a human being, this chapter suggests transformations for the phenomenological work of this book into clinical interventions.
