My Own Private Germany

Santner, Éric L.

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“…Flechsig je bio pionir neuroznanosti, secirao je mozgove duševnih pacije nata da bi doznao vezu između mozga i duševnih bolesti, a u kasnijoj fazi svoje karijere nastojao je -po njegovu mišljenju uspješno -pronaći dijelove mozga i živaca koji odgovaraju filozofskim postulatima, uključujući i Kantov transcendentalni idealizam). 43 Flechsig je taj drugi 'redatelj' koji neprestano mobilizira Schreberov mozak, stavlja njegove živce u izvanredno stanje, ali na kraju i on biva potisnut. Schreber u svojim memoarima piše: »… kasnije, bez obzira na nerve profesora Flechsiga, božanske zrake direktno su ušle u kontakt s mojim živcima.…”

Section: Caligarijeva Ostavštinaunclassified

Kralj bez tijela i njegova sjena

Vrbančić

2020

Filoz. istraž. (Online)

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Inspiriran radom Erica Santnera (1996, 2011) o političkoj teologiji i kraljeva dva tijela, u ovom radu propitujem političku teologiju filma, tj. kako drugo tijelo kralja, tijelo njegove moći, migrira u novo tijelo, tijelo naroda, te sablasno, u raznim tragovima, prati filmski način proizvodnje koji je obilježio dvadeseto stoljeće. U radu dovodim u imaginarnu vezu dva lika (jedan stvarni, drugi fiktivni) koji na određeni način utjelovljuju to migriranje: (1) sudca Daniela Paula Schrebera (čiji je autobiografski zapis mentalne bolesti, od trenutka kada je objavljen 1903., okupirao pažnju ne samo psihijatara i psihoanalitičara nego i raznih teoretičara), i (2) doktora Caligarija, hipnotizera u filmu Kabinet doktora Caligarija (red. Robert Wiene, 1920.), jednog od najpoznatijih junaka njemačkog ekspresionističkog filma, kako bih analizirao kako njihovi slučajevi utjelovljuju »sublimno rojalističko meso« u nacionalnim fantazmagorijama dvadesetoga stoljeća (koje se sve više vraćaju i u naše vrijeme u doba rastućeg populizma i brojnih teorija zavjere).

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Kralj bez tijela i njegova sjena

Vrbančić

2020

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“…But where Benhabib is interested in Varnhagen's institution, the salon, and the alternative history of modernity it represents, Santner focuses on the repressed side of "all institutions and the social facts they sponsor." 28 Where, for Benhabib, establishing Varnhagen's exemplarity means reproducing Varnhagen's own effort to "banish from the day [. .…”

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“…30 This is a fantasy, obviously, but, Santner says, it has a realist core; Schreber was clearly traumatized by personal exposure to disciplinary power as a patient in a medical institution and also, earlier in life, when his father worked to develop orthopedic and pediatric treatments that Santner describes as "a near caricature of those 'systems of micro-power' that Foucault associates with the disciplines." 31 However, Schreber is also, himself, a bearer of authority and not only a subject of its abusive excess. Both of Schreber's two mental breakdowns, Santner notes, followed an attempted "symbolic investiture."…”

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“…Pitkin We could say, as Santner says of Schreber, that Varnhagen, too, makes the Foucauldian discovery "that power not only prohibits, moderates, says 'no,' but may also work to intensify and amplify the body and its sensations" and produce desire. 54 This is a different way to politicize the impasse of Varnhagen's parvenu existence. If Varnhagen feels she has no choice but to cultivate a desire for German society, that is perfectly understandable-her social existence depends on this desire.…”

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World-Craving: Rahel Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Strange Promise of Paranoia

Rotem

2019

Political Theory

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This essay reads Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen (1957) alongside Sigmund Freud’s case history of paranoia, The Schreber Case (1911), two texts about 18th- and 19th-century personalities caught up in the gender and ethnic politics of their times. Noting affinities between the fantasies documented in Varnhagen’s and Schreber’s memoirs, I compare Seyla Benhabib’s and Eric Santner’s readings of these two texts as political, not psychological, documents. I propose a reading of paranoia positioned between Benhabib’s too optimistic dismissal of paranoia and Santner’s too tragic approach. The result is a new reading of Varnhagen’s story and an approach to paranoia as a potentially promising political affect. Might paranoia stand not just for world-withdrawal but also for world-building? If so, this would be in keeping with Arendt’s own treatment of her subject’s persecution fantasies not only as a “verdict against the world” but also as a desire for a world.

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“…Santner's insight is that "cold war paranoia may have actually played the role of a collective psychological defense mechanism against a far more disturbing pathology." 55 Without an "evil empire" to serve as a consolidated projection shield, the enemy suddenly appeared to be everywhere. It's perhaps no coincidence that Kippenberger seems to have first incorporated the Schreber material into his art in 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.…”

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Don't Wake Daddy: Martin Kippenberger and the Schreber Case

Stobaugh

2018

October

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In the later years of his work, Martin Kippenberger made a number of paintings, multiples, and works on paper that referred to both Daniel Paul Schreber—a German judge whose Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) became a subject of considerable commentary by psychoanalysts and critical theorists throughout the twentieth century—and his father, physician Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber. Nathan Stobaugh offers an analysis of these works from the 1990s and argues that Kippenberger's engagement with this case, when placed in the context of his larger body of work, demonstrates the necessity of scrutinizing the Schreber father and son together. While this scrutiny might cast Kippenberger's observers themselves as paranoiacs, such a position might be necessary to apprehend a cultural predicament in which authoritarian power seems equally likely to congeal in the form of a patriarchal master as it is to spread throughout a world in which children of all ages are forced, through the management of their desire, into particular molds.

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My Own Private Germany

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World-Craving: Rahel Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Strange Promise of Paranoia

Don't Wake Daddy: Martin Kippenberger and the Schreber Case

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