ABSTRACT
Throughout the last two chapters we have been arguing that subjectivity is not a unified or transcendent psychological essence but a process. The subject, continually (re)activated and (re)positioned in the multiple discourses of culture, is an effect of signification. For the most part, however, we have concentrated on the textual representation of a divided and heterogeneous subject without taking the reader or viewer into account. As a result, we may have appeared to be implying the reader’s or viewer’s exemption from the discursive production of subjectivity. With this chapter, we shall explain that a narrative text does not simply represent subjectivity to readers or viewers; more importantly, it also signifies their subjectivity for them.
