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Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation

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Is Subjectivity Defining Subjectivity?

The symbolic on its own can't function in a straight line. Sex is the very deviation within the symbolic causality yeah and that's why you can't have a clause a that creates or at the effect is subject to be right? You don't get this straight line instead you get a curved line and then as a result subjectivity is is free i mean that ends up being her point toward the end of the of the chapter  that it's in a way she's trying to defend freedom against against the position that she thinks that butlers in a way endangering the freedom of the subject in her theory. She has this great line about like part of what butler accepts is what

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