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From: Fair Housing Center <cafhc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:38:41 -0500
Could someone expand a bit on the differences between subjectification and
subjection? Or can you give me a reference in which the distinction is
discussed?
Thanks, cc
>With regard to Lacan's, Althusser's, and Foucault's formulations of the
>subject, I think that there is a problem that is common to all three
>versions, which is their tendency to postulate the perfect conincidence of
>subjectification and subjection, hence their avoidance of the question of
>political agency and consciousness capable of radical social transformation
>that will undo the unfreedom of freedom that so concerned them. In all
>three writers, one can discern an ethical and aesthetic longing for the end
>of Man, the dissolution of the subject as we have known him, which may be
>characterized as a theoretical continuation of the thematics and stylistics
>of literary modernism.
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>Yoshie Furuhashi
