It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. There was only one remedy as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered.
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