Schreber: an approach to soul androgyny.

Abstract

Nowadays Jungian analysts are invited to understand what has been presenting as new emerging sexualities. Although we cannot find a theory of homosexuality in Jung's work, we will find references to this issue in clinical situations, interpretation of dreams, as well as his theory of anima and animus. Jung's theoretical perspective distinguishes sex and gender, anticipating contemporary gender issues and making the approach to the psyche even more complex. Jung was ahead of his time. Contemporary authors present critical reflection on the bases of innatism or culturalism as expressions of new sexualities. The paper present fragments of clinical situations and images, for a reflection on coniunctio of opposites, with their telos and psychic force, in the direction of soul androgyny. It presents a Jungian contribution to Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber. Freud's Schreber Case, with his psychopathological interpretation related to paranoia and homosexuality, seems reductive and contrasts with the Jungian approach that introduces a synthetic-hermeneutic analysis.