Charles Melman – Inside and Outside in the Case of President Schreber
 
THE LETTER 48 (Autumn 2011) pages 1-7.
 
Are our thoughts and actions governed by innate ideas, as Plato would have it, or by the experience of reality mediated by our senses which is Aristotle’s position?  This ancient question can be clarified through the psychoanalytic study of neurosis, phobia and mourning but it is especially well illustrated in the experience of psychotics and in particular that of President Schreber.
 
Keywords: Inside and outside, sexuality and trauma, the Moebius strip, the Schreber case.