Jeff Samuelson’s Reviews > Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life > Status Update

Ruti is offering an alternative to post humanist/ constructivist theories of the subject. Her insight is that at the core of human subjectivity there is a Lacanian lack, but this lack is not exclusively a site of alienation. It is what gives rise to the subject’s power to generate meaning. Even as the signifier draws the subject into the symbolic system it can’t control.