You could try this:
LOST PRINCE: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
By Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.
Translated and introduced by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
Free Press. 254 pp. $23.
I believe that you can find a book review of this at:
http://past.thenation.com/issue/960311/0311corr.htm
and should be able to buy the book online from amazon.
I too loved the film, and hope you find this information helpful
Simon Jones
P.S. Does anyone know where i can get a dvd copy of the film from?
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Subject: Kaspar Hauser
Dear All,
I am sorry to bother with a question that is only *indirectly* a question
about film(s). After the Werner Herzog's film (to which none can even
compare), a new version of Kaspar Hauser has appeared, an attempt (failed
or not) to provide a realist (?) narrative. This itself is an interesting
enough double: the question, however, concerns the philosophical (or
psychoanalytic) treatments of the story. Kaspar Hauser seems to call for
such: I even recall hearing of some (Lacanian?) one, but cannot remember.
(It would be, of course, quite appropriate to credit *Herzog* with the only
one - perhaps such has to be visual (?) rather than written - but I am
still curious.)
Can anybody - please - recall *any* theoretical, philosophical or PA
treatment of the narrative: ideally - simply because I am almost sure I've
heard of something - a 'canonic' one (i.e. simply one cnnected :-) with a
famous name)?
So many thanks.
Sincerely,
Simon Krysl
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