Thanks - cc and Yoshie (what a cool name)- for the question and answer. But
could some good soul, please, translate the answer?
At 02:38 PM 7/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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?
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>Thanks, cc
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>>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
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could some good soul, please, translate the answer?
At 02:38 PM 7/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>>
>>Yoshie Furuhashi
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