The Freudian Orient : early psychoanalysis, anti-semitic challenge, and the vicissitudes of Orientalist discourse / Frank F. Scherer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scherer, Frank F., 1956- author.

Series:

History of psychoanalysis series.

History of Psychoanalysis Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Said, Edward W.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 thus begin by tracing the strong Orientalist presence in Freud's writings with examples from his early as well as later correspondence, his diaries, and his psychological works. Following these examples of "manifest" Orientalism, we will pursue more "latent" meanings by engaging two of Freud's favorite metaphors: archaeology and travel. Whereas the former soon uncovers a veritable porta Orientis, conducting to an external Orient, the latter reveals an internalised Orient traversed by Jewishness, anti-Semitism and the Bible. Unveiling the figure of Moses shows how Freud's strategy to resist anti-Semitic Orientalism by way of universalist reversal is only partially successful as he cannot extricate himself from the historical assumptions of that discourse. Nonetheless, it is the revolutionary concept of the unstable subject posited by Freudian psychoanalysis which enables a more nuanced understanding of the vicissitudes of Freud's own Orientalist discourse.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION Sigmund Freud, Indy Jones, and the Far East

CHAPTER ONE Oriental(ist) scenes

CHAPTER TWO The archaeological sphere of imagination

CHAPTER THREE Travelling the Via Regia

ACROSS EUROPE: TENTATIVE TABLEAUX

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 Four theses

APPENDIX ONE Sigmund Freud's letter to Emil Fluss

APPENDIX THREE Freud's Via Regia in translation

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: London: Karnac, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-92084-9

0-429-90661-7

0-429-48184-5

1-78241-407-X

9780429481840

OCLC:

925290589