ABSTRACT
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and political theorist, is well known for her early role in shaping the field of queer theory and for defining the anti-identitarian turn in feminist thought. She teaches the rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. For her, political revolt inheres in attaining social recognition for this proliferation of subjectivities that always exceed the symbolic law of which they are the by-product. Zizek posits that Laclau's concept of hegemony as constituted by an inherent antagonism bridges the gap between Butler's insistence on the historical production of the sexed subject and his own neo-Lacanian notion of the subject rendered incomplete by the real. The radical absence that Lacan posits as the universal core of subjectivity is the condition both for the necessary functioning of the master-signifier to quilt the subject's desires to the social will and the ultimate contingency of this quilting.
