Literary theories offer readers numerous opportunities to understand literary works through various interpretations. From the beginning, Turkish novelists have been influenced by the West, both in experimenting with new literary forms and in shaping the content of these forms. This interaction indirectly revealed a desire to imitate or surpass. When it comes to imitation in literary works, the "self and other" conflict, which has a philosophical content in terms of the issue of the imitator and the imitated, emerges.The approach in René Girard's work Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure serves as a guide for studies on Orientalism in literature. As a matter of fact, Girard's research provides an opportunity to evaluate the concepts of "Self and Other" that appear in literary texts related to Orientalism, self-Orientalism and Occidentalism. This study aims to concretely exemplify the concepts of "Self and Other" that the mentioned terms related to Orientalism reveal in the literary text. Sami Paşazade Sezai's "Sergüzeşt" was chosen as sample material due to its suitability for concretizing the concepts of "Self and Other." The conflict arising from the position of the captive Dilber as the "Other" against the "Self" of Celal Bey, who received both Ottoman and Western art education, establishes a significant relationship with the concepts of Orientalism, yet this framework dissolves by the end of the novel. Thus, in this work, Samipaşazade does not entirely maintain an Orientalist perspective; instead, he utilizes the clichés found in Eastern love stories for the desire to be free.