Author of quotes: Judith Butler

We are accustomed to thinking of power as what presses on the subject from the outside, that subordinary, puts in a relationship and translates into a lower class. This, of course, a fair description of what power does. But if, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as providing the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire, then power is not simply what we oppose but also, in the end, what we depend on in our very existence, and what we concealed and stored in his being. A common model of understanding of the process is this: the government is introducing himself in us, and, weakened by its force, we internalize or accept her terms. What is not taken into account in this approach, however, is what do we, receiving these terms are fundamentally dependent on them in "our" existence. Does not exist the discursive terms for the articulation of any "we". Subjecte consists precisely in this fundamental dependency on discourse we never choose but that, paradoxically, gives rise to our activities and support her.