The Freudian Orient : Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse (The History of Psychoanalysis Series)

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