The Balkans: A Place between East and West
The Balkans: A Place between East and West

Summary/Abstract: This article is, formally speaking, an attempt to show a diversity of theories, opinions and thoughts about the Balkans, primarily as a cultural category, and to picture a position of “Balkanism” as a concept in contrast to Orientalism and Occidentalism. Before going into that, we present definition(s) of Orientalism and Occidentalism and how these terms were or were not applied to different Balkan countries through history, especially Bulgaria. Throughout the text we point to several (possible) analogies, related problems and concepts from different areas, such as psychoanalysis, philosophy and anthropology, in order to show how cooperation between different areas can be beneficial for a better understanding and picturing of certain – more or less – controversial topics.

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