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227“as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” (3). Asargued by Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm, Orientalism produces another reversed Orientalism, an“Orientalism in reverse”:I would like to point out that the analyses, beliefs and ideas produced by the Islamanictrend in defense of its central thesis simply reproduce the whole discredited apparatus ofclassical Orientalist doctrine concerning the difference between East and West, Islam andEurope. This reiteration occurs at both the ontological and epistemological levels, onlyreversed to favour Islam and the East in its implicit and explicit value judgements (234).This means that America has increasingly become the object of the Orient’s imagination. In fact,“the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality,experience. The Orient is an integral part of European material civilization and culture”(Orientalism 1-2). This materiality of the encounter is crucial to understanding the encounterbetween the West and the East. Staging the missed encounter between America and its Other(s),this chapter studies the Orient as a symptom among the various symptoms that hover over theReal of America. This is why psychoanalysis and deconstruction are relevant to the study of theNew World Order and the current changes in its geopolitical scenesor rather its mises en scène.If we pursue the questions that have been opened up by the missed encounter, then the very valueof the encounter, the very contours of the encounter, can perhaps no longer be determinedbecause it is self-sufficient and at the same time contingent on other Things.Freud’s analytic curewhich is a discursive space in which two people have adialogueis complemented by Lacan, who sees psychoanalysis as a comprehensively linguisticevent. Influenced by the work of Freud and Lacan, modernist and postmodernist theorists have