Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part 1/2)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Pre-Discursive as an Impossibility
Butler: Lacan presents a radical alternative because none of this has to do with ontology. But the problem is that it relies still fundamentally on a kind of telos, so a process that is wholly linear. So as she says on 75, the rendition of Lacan that understands the pre-discursive as an impossibility promises a critique that conceptualizes the law as prohibitive and generative at once.
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