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228revisited certain psychoanalytic concepts and have tried to fill in the gaps left by psychoanalysis,by either studying the cultural and political aspects of the missed encounter or by bringingFreudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis into dialogue with other theories, such as Marxism,<strong>de</strong>construction, cultural materialism, and Orientalism. In this chapter I offer a study of the misse<strong>de</strong>ncounter in which the positions of Žižek, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Jameson, Derrida,and Said join forces to complement the Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalytic approaches to themissed encounter. This approach is inten<strong>de</strong>d to salvage the gaps left by the psychoanalytic mo<strong>de</strong>l.If the psychoanalytic mo<strong>de</strong>l (Freudian and Lacanian) has <strong>de</strong>stabilized the Cartesian cogito fromits <strong>de</strong>ceptive realm, it has constructed another kind of duality in which the Symbolic (language) isgiven primacy over the body which is ostracized and left in the Real. The main result of therelegation of the body to the impossible Real is the creation of another gap, this time not betweenmind and matter, but rather between being and meaning. In the Lacanian structuralpsychoanalytic mo<strong>de</strong>l, the entry into the Symbolic (language) is equated with a loss of beingaloss around which the drive relentlessly revolves, creating a painful pleasure (jouissance). Thegap created by the entry into language is irre<strong>de</strong>emable and is necessary for the construction ofsubjectivity. This is why Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of psychoanalysis is very important ifwe want to expand the scope of the missed encounter. Their alternative schizoanalysis does notsee the subject as split and does not relegate the body to the impossible Real; rather, it consi<strong>de</strong>rsthe subject and the object as interacting and exchanging positions and sees the body as a series oforgans or flows that constitute active agents. At another level, <strong>de</strong>sire, unlike in the Lacanianmo<strong>de</strong>l where it is consi<strong>de</strong>red as emerging from a lack, is replaced with a theory of positivebecoming. As a result, the bulk of my investigation will revolve around the Freudian-Lacanian

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