The Goldilocks position
'This is too [X], and this is too [Y], but this is just right'
Or, the thoughts that arise in me when I have been exposed to a certain amount of invocation of The Other in particular historical frameworks.
Yes, The Other is a useful theoretical construct.
But: I don't think there's just one Other, there are usually at least two, so that We (whoever we are) can be in the Just Right Middle position, not too little, not too much.
So, in (for example) C19th arguments and debates or assumptions concerning race, I don't think it's just about invoking the primitive, there's also the effete, gone through civilisation or sailed right past it into decadence (cf O Wilde on the Americans - 'barbarism to decadence without passing through civilisation) cultures. (If the primitive gets associated with hypersexuality, these tend to get associated with the perverse, being so enervated that they require the erotic equivalent of very hot chilli sauce to get going.)
We, being the middle classes, are neither brutish, idle and intemperate like the lower orders, nor are we decadent, idle, and intemperate like the effete aristocracy.
We, being the C19th-early C20th Brits, are neither immoral like the French and other inhabitants of continental Europe, but neither are we ridiculously prudish like our American cousins with their covered-up piano legs and excessive euphemism.
I daresay this could work for other cultures and other phenomena.
I am sure there would be ways of turning this insight into a substantial monograph: but somehow I'm just not that interested in doing it. I'm not really bothered about writing anything when the message can be reduced to something that would go on the back of a postage stamp, and not even written particularly small.