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In this chapter, I engage with Said’s (1978/2003) third and most influential book, Orientalism, which inaugurated postcolonialism as a field of study. In Orientalism, Said (1978/2003) distinguishes between latent (unconscious) Orientalism and manifest (conscious) Orientalism—an important distinction, which he would not have been able to make without Freud’s categories for dream interpretation. Strangely, Freud’s name is cited three times in Orientalism, but these citations are in passing, and they are never in relation to the latent/manifest distinction. In other words, Freud is repressed in the text. Why is that?
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Beshara, R.K. (2021). Orientalism. In: Freud and Said. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56743-9_3
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