The Judge’s Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber

Peter Goodrich

doi:10.1007/s10978-015-9154-z

The Judge’s Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber

Peter Goodrich

Legal Studies

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Abstract

The great work of the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber, namely Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, has received predictable and rather unimaginative interpretations as the discourse of a lunatic. The work has not been studied as a theory of law. Schreber, it is argued here, was an extreme lawyer, a radical melancholegalist, a black letter theorist, a critic avant la lettre (noire), and a radical theorist of an impure jurisprudence.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	117-133
Number of pages	17
Journal	Law and Critique
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9154-z
State	Published - Jul 17 2015

Keywords

Juridical theology
Kelsen
Lacan
Psychoanalysis and law
Psychosis
Schreber

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Law

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