1st Edition

The Freudian Orient Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse

By Frank F. Scherer Copyright 2015

    This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into conversation Sigmund Freud and Edward Said and, thereby, the founding texts of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies. The immediate object of this exploration is the "Freudian Orient" and we t

    Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- Oriental(ist) scenes -- The archaeological sphere of imagination -- Travelling the Via Regia -- Across Europe: Tentative Tableaux -- Paris 1938, 1886 -- Frankfurt 1933, 1930, 1870 -- Weimar 1911, 1811 -- Leipzig 1899, 1859 -- Kamenz 1912, 1883 -- Breslau/Wroclaw 1897, 1859 -- Freiberg/Pribor 1918, 1859 -- Krakau/Krakow 1916–17/1882 -- Tysmenitz/Tysmienica—Buchach/Bucacz 1925, 1815 -- Brody/Prode 1909, 1835 -- Conclusion -- Sigmund Freud’s letter to Emil Fluss -- Freud’s “archaeology” in citation -- Freud’s Via Regia in translation

    Biography

    F. Scherer, Frank