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Foreclosure (n.) excludes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠signifiers that were once symbolized — not merely repressed, but those whose re-entry would unravel the subject itself; which ones qualify varies with power.

Foreclosure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an unofficial censorship, a primary restriction in speech that constitutes the very possibility of agency in speech.

Foreclosure (n.) differs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from condemnation: Oedipus is condemned after his act, but Antigone is foreclosed — any life and love she might have had ruled out from the start.

Foreclosure (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the primary 'bar' produces the threat to the subject and defends against it at the same time; the subject survives only by foreclosing what most threatens it.

Foreclosure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a barring with no one barring: the subject emerges as the result of the bar — and what is cut out constitutes the unperformable in all performativity.