![]() Recurring images of his wildly weeping wife and an overhead shot of Schreber lying beside her in bed writhing in imagined feminine orgasm mark the onset of his breakdown. Emil Flechsig (Bob Cucuzza) are interwoven into the fabric of his delusions. Rather the multiple failed pregnancies of Schreber’s wife (Lara Milian), Schreber’s relationship to his father (Joe Coleman), and the dubious care given him by Dr. Unlike Freud, who saw in Schreber’s account a case history of homosexual repression and paranoia, Hobbs offers no single-stranded interpretation. Under Schreber’s (Jefferson Mays) voiceover memoirs, a series of stiffly posed, fragmented scenes portray his turn-of-the-century marriage, his appointment as high judge, the subsequent slow infiltration of madness and his incarceration in an insane asylum. ![]()
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