A bit of psychoanalytic reverie re: the parallels between #TrumpVirus and the psychotic delusions of Hans Schreber...
I woke up with this in mind, after hearing a deranged DJT praise "hostages" of #justice on #Jan6 -
and speaking of water sinking magnets. So reminded me of the magical/delusional/self-referential 'thinking' of another madman.
Inside the Mind of Daniel Schreber: A look at Sigmund Freud's interpretation of Daniel Schreber's fantasies detailed in Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Not having heard/thought of this in decades, it is almost synchronicity that out of the blue a few others have recalled this now-ancient bit of Freud's focus at one time. What I recall (not highlighted in the few articles I could find online) is this context. The son of a famous person, and famed judge in his own right, Schreber wound up in an asylum (twice, at least, including his last stop).
What I recall in my training was a look at his dreams, as described in a biography he wrote in his last days. He was tortured by dreams or waking delusions of little demonic spots covering his eyes. Thin-sliced, it turns out the judge's famous father had bound him with objects to constrain his hands while sleeping (don't want to do anything evil while sleeping!) and - importantly - would dab junior's eyelids with cold drops of water. It was striking how vividly that seemed to match the hallucinations around 'seeing spots'.
Now I'm looking at a few articles to see what I can find more specific to that, but meanwhile...
That's what came out of hiding in my own 'subconscious' upon hearing Lord StableGenius talk about sinking magnets with water.
Reminded in terms of the #psychosis and how personal experience & thinking shape #delusions & #hallucinations & #WordSalad
Sorry about the aspects of Freud's Victorian-era treatment of 'homosexuality' which I know turned many off, and away from Freud (aside from generalized views of how 'anatomy is destiny', and narcissism, and a few other things not addressed publicly before him.)
#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychosis #Trump #magnets #insanity
