The article aims to address the dynamically changing western gaze on the oriental scenery of Casablanca analysed from the perspective of psychoanalytical theory. Crucial to the analysis is the psychoanalytical interpretation of visual culture whose time-space transformations coincide on the border of cultures. The interpretation is particularly focused on the interpersonal relationship between the characters and space-time flashbacks by the symptomatic reading of elements of narrative derived from textual analysis of storytelling. The psychoanalytical framework puts an emphasis on the interpretation of the places where the film’s events occurred in terms of a phantasmatic scene.
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