Daniel Paul Schreber ( Leipzig, 1842-1911 ) study law degree and attained the rank of doctor in the year of 1869. The magistrate Dr. Paul Schreber was seriously disrupted at least three times in his life . Freud developed his theory of paranoia based on the memoirs ("The Schreber case ' ) ; so did Lacan ( Writings ) . While Elias Canneti ( Crowds and Power ) and Roberto Calasso ( Impure crazy) , from non-psychoanalytic perspectives, rather a literary essays and the other , eventually recognize the greatness of this exceptional book.