"Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" written by Freud reads:If the persecutor Fleschig was originally a person whom Schreber loved, then God must even if it was simply the reappearance of someone else he loved, and probably someone of greater importance. If we follow this reasoning, which seems legitimate, we will be led to the conclusion that this other person must have been his father; in this case it will be even clearer that Fleschig must have taken his brother's side... We know perfectly well the children's attitude towards their father; it is composed of the same mixture of reverent submission and rebellious insubordination that we found in Schreber's relationship with his God, and it is the unmistakable prototype of that relationship, which is faithfully copied from it (150). It's all in the heads of the characters who can match or restore the person who left their life, whether through natural death (as seems to be the case in Dr. Schreber's piece) or through murder and revenge in the Greek tragedies. The Furies' manipulation of the characters into thinking that, through cold-blooded revenge, they can restore things to the way they were and fill the void, is what happens to Dr. Schreber through paranoia. All the characters in the Greek tragedies that we have seen, such as Hamlet, Medea, Clytemnestra, had a void that they wanted to fill in the tragedies. For example, Medea lost her husband and the father of her children to someone else and was forced to leave; Hamlet lost his father due to his uncle's criminal actions; Clytemnestra's daughter was sacrificed by Agamemnon; Hieronymus lost his son in cold-blooded murder and... middle of paper... will kill every connection he ever had to him, restore his virginity, his past, and hurt him in the deepest way possible. She seems to forget how, even though she didn't ultimately die or suffer like the other characters, she had to kill her own flesh and blood to realize her foolish, paranoid beliefs. Of course her virginity cannot be restored by killing her children. What's done is done, as the saying goes. Nothing she does can ever restore her experiences with Jason. However, she lets the Furies manipulate her into believing that killing her children, with Jason as a witness, is the strategy to restore her purity, reputation, mental health, and life in general. His honor. Paranoia has made these characters and Schreber pay a heavy price for their desire to fill slots: they have lost touch with reality. In the end, most of them paid by filling the spaces in the coffins.
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