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32171 Anouar Majid’s study is a critique of both Western and Islamic theoretical assumptions. Hecritiques the western secularism liberal tradition, which, according to him, is a form of neo-Orientalism. At the same time he argues that postcolonial critics, who advocate a theory a hybridityor exile, have worsened the conditions of the Other.72 Bruce Fink, in his The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance, writes:The real is, for example, an infant's body "before" it comes under the sway of the symbolicorder, before it is subjected to toilet training and instructed in the ways of the world. In thecourse of socialization, the body is progressively written or overwritten with signifiers;pleasure is localized in certain zones, while other zones are neutralized by the word andcoaxed into compliance with social, behavioral norms. Taking Freud's notion ofpolymorphous perversity to the extreme, we can view the infant's body as but one unbrokenerogenous zone, there being no privileged zones, no areas in which pleasure is circumscribedat the outset. (24)73 The contradictory nature of the pharmakonit necessity and dangerreflects the unavoidabledanger that follows the intrusion of the Real in the texture of the Symbolic.74 See Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Benjamin’s analysis of the deauratization of artthrough photography in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. When applied tothe representation of Others during the various steps of imperialism and colonization, these analysescan be used to assert that the Others, while geographically and temporally difficult to contain, areavailable in estranged different forms that substitute their original aura. To tame the uncivilized