ABSTRACT
In ‘After Postmodernism’, philosophy (of education) needs two new subjects together with a new concept of justice. The first new subject needed is the ‘subject as trauma’. We need to move from the traumatized subject to the subject as trauma (Žižek, 2016). When the self is completely destroyed, say, through a brain lesion, what remains in its place? According to Žižek, the subject remains. When the good form, that is, the symbolically constituted reality, is destroyed, what remains is the form of the negation of form, which is the subject. The gap separating subjectivity from subject, i.e. the fictional yet fully constituted self and its empty frame, is the focus since it is not that trauma happens to us. Rather, we are the trauma and it has already happened.
