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"Freud always expressed great ambivalence towards Vienna and the Viennese. Nonetheless, his thought was a creature of its environment, of its time. Every Habsburg subject was an Oedipus to the crushing father figure of the Emperor; every stroll through the city and every visit to the theatre reinforced the notion of the dangerous dichotomy between façade and structure, between external and internal life."
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"Imperialist culture and orientalist imagination are not the same. The latter was a significant part of European culture around 1900. Its function, though, was not so much to represent imperialism, as to provide an escape from the dizzying speed of modern life. The Orient was projected as being everything that the Occident was not. If speed was the poison of modernity, the Orient was its antidote."
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