The Subject (n.) is a basic constitutive void that drives subjectivation but which cannot ultimately be filled out by it. It is simultaneously the lack and the leftover in all forms of subjectivation.
The Subject (n.) is a legal fiction whose function is to create an agent who can be blamed for unacceptable acts.
The Subject (n.) is a paradoxical entity which exist only as ex-sisting, as standing outside itself in ontological openness.
The Subject (n.) is, for the deconstructionist, a legal fiction whose function is to create an agent who can be blamed for unacceptable acts thus obfuscating the need for a closer analysis of the concrete social circumstances that give rise to phenomena perceived as deplorable.
The Subject (n.) is he who is not able to assume the very core of his or her inner experience.
The Subject (n.) is, in a de-fetishized reality, a gap or darkness without the fantasmatic content of 'inner life' that we suppose to shine through it. The difficult thing is to see reality in its pre-ontological status, as not fully constituted, to see the nothing where there is nothing to see.
A Subject (n.) is literally a hole, gap, spot of unfinished reality in the positive order of being and we in fact de-subjectivize people, falsely filling in the void, rendering them whole as a 'person' by way of projecting onto the darkness the imaginary wealth of personality.
The Subject (n.) is not simply an effect but also the remainder, which eludes knowledge-power, the excess that resist inclusion.
The Subject (n.) is not, pace foucault, simply the result of the disciplinary application of knowledge-power, but its remainder, that which eludes the grasp of knowledge-power. It is what the discourse itself produces as the foreign body in its very heart.
The Subject (n.) is that which, in modernism took shape against a limit that impeded the subject's self expression. In postmodernism, the very limit is the subject.
The Subject (n.) is, under the standard view, that of phenomenal experience, that is, the idea that 'no matter what unknown mechanisms govern my acts, perceptions or thoughts, nobody can take away from me the fact that I feel here and now.