the analysis of the psychotic judge Schreber is the one case study of Freud’s not based on one of his actual patients. It is instead an analysis of a memoir written by Schreber after his descent into psychosis, which occurred after he was promoted to the position of presiding judge at the Dresden Higher Regional Court. In his paranoia, God spoke to him through the rays of the sun, monitoring Schreber’s bowel movements and other bodily pleasures, intensifying them to the point of pain, while chattering like birds in High and Low German. What Freud learns is that paranoid delusions are curative of a more general destruction by psychosis, where desire retracts inwards, destroying all contact with the world outside. A hook or tie back to the world needs to be created and delusory paranoiac fantasies act like this suture. This is a lesson for everyone, one that Freud radicalises – desire creates our place in the world. For Schreber, God was penetrating his body with the sun’s rays in order to make him a woman, his bride. Schreber would be impregnated so that he could repopulate the earth. The delusion returned him to the world with an anticipated future. Schreber, stabilised by this belief, soundly makes an argument for his release at a court hearing, aligning himself with the logic of Christ. “I can be released because I won’t act on my delusions. My kingdom,” he says, “is of another world.” It was logically irrefutable. Schreber went free and lived a quiet life until his death in 1911.