ABSTRACT
By departing from the discursive mediation the Lacanian Left offers of Lacan’s theoretical corpus and adding a critical feminist reading of their work, this chapter aims to develop a topology that illustrates how subjects emerge through discourse and how such an emergence locates them in a specific space of inhabitancy. This analysis involves studying the structure of discourse and attempts to offer a topology of this frame. Lastly, this analysis aims to function as the grounds for a feminist reading that affirms that the discursive operations of political framing are processes of sexuation that construct Reality in an androcentric way. In other words, the frame of existence of Reality is a frame that situates the androcentric existence at the center. While Chapter 1 discusses the ontic and the ontological levels, Chapter 2 complexifies this analysis and shows that discursive operations that establish Reality act upon the ontological level by creating two different spaces within it: a space of ex-sistence in which subjects exist outside of the frames of Reality and the space of existence granted to subjects that inhabit the signifying chain created through discursive operations. These ontological statuses clearly determine the consideration of a subject as a subject of politics.
