Bibliographic record
Abstract
University of Chicago German-Jewish studies scholar Eric L. Santner is a singular psychoanalytic thinker. His criticism stands out for the finesse with which he brings Lacanian thought into resonance with Foucault’s ideas about the advent of modernity. To this end, Santner’s My Own Private Germany performs a nuanced meta-reading of Lacan’s reading of Freud’s reading of fin-de-siècle Saxon jurist Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903). Surprisingly, many psychoanalytic humanities scholars have never encountered the Schreber affair and know little of Lacan’s work beyond his “Seminar on The Purloined Letter.” However, the portrait Santner paints of what I call Schreber’s “purloined paranoia” is arguably even more replete with significance for the future of Lacanian thought across the disciplines. His supple analysis of the travails of Schreber’s “psychotic” text, as it passes hands from thinker to thinker, tracks the itinerary of subjectivity in a paranoid milieu defined by the impossibility of a metalanguage or God’s-eye-view. Through this lens, Schreber’s gender-bending text, and the cascade of interpretations it produced (and continues to produce), indexes a modern “crisis of sovereignty” whereby phallic authority is slowly divested of its long-standing libidinal buttressing as the calamity of media modernity sends seismic tremors through the architecture of the Lacanian unconscious. Drawing on the work of the aforementioned thinkers and others, this article works through the import of Schreber to our particular historical moment. As Santner’s work reveals, a historiography of Schreber’s text and its cascade of effects gestures toward vital new pathways for Lacanian reading strategies in the digital twenty-first century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".