Frank F. Scherer, PhD, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is author of 'UFA Orientalism - The ""Orient"" in Early German Film: Lubitsch and May” in Cinema Journal, Issue 1 (2012); 'Freud’s Turkey: Psychoanalysis and the Vicissitudes of Orientalism' in Veronika Bernard et. al. (eds.) Breaking the Stereotype: From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images (2011); 'Sanfancón: Orientalism, Self-Orientalization, and Chinese Religion in Cuba' in Patrick Taylor (ed.), Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (2001).
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,... (more)