'Havelock Ellis has sent me the sixth volume of his studies, Sex in Relation to Society,' Freud wrote to Jung, in late April 1910. 'Unfortunately my receptivity is consumed by my nine analyses. But I shall set it aside for the holidays along with the wonderful Schreber.' Freud is here referring to the famous case of Daniel Paul Schreber, whose Memoirs of his nervous illness had appeared in 1903, and constitute one of the most celebrated case-studies of paranoia in the literature. The letter of 1910 to Jung goes on: 'Schreber, who ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital ...'

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