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A 5 page paper which examines the case of Daniel Schreber and the narrator in Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground.” The paper incorporates the notes of Freud concerning the Schreber case as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of possibilities from the perspective of analysis. It is also a case that can be clearly related to the narrator in Dostoyevskys work "Notes from the Underground." Both characters, or
individuals, have some serious mental issues and as such they can clearly be analyzed in many intriguing ways. Bearing that in mind the following paper compares and contrasts the relationships
that Schreber and Dostoyevskys narrator have with other people. Schreber and Dostoevsky Schreber and the Underground Man are two very different individuals in regards to their relationships with
others. There is a sense that through others they can hope to find some relief to their mental illnesses but generally speaking they approach others, and interact with others, in
very different ways. The similarities, as mentioned, involve the hope that through others they can find meaning or a cure perhaps. In the case of the Underground Man he
occasionally believes that one person or another can bring him out perhaps. There is the Officer, his old friends, and then quite obviously the prostitute at the end of the
story. In Schrebers case he succumbs, it seems, to the notion that Professor Flechsig can perhaps help him, though in this respect it appears that he is merely going along
with his wifes hopes. In the case of the Underground Man one can see his hopes in the prostitute in the following: "I hated her and how I was
drawn to her at that minute!...She had gone. I went back to my room in hesitation. I felt horribly oppressed... I could not endure it. A minute
later I flew like a madman to dress, flinging on what I could at random and ran headlong after her" (Dostoyevsky Chapter IX, X). In Schrebers case one can
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