Becoming a subject requires prior subjection to discourse

Evidence

In all these contexts, Stuart is careful to recognize that identity is always something constructed in discourse rather than some given sociological or biological essence that preexists representation. … He is also very clear about the extent that identity, far from being a matter of self-creation, is, rather, best understood as something constructed in and through a dialogic process—in which individuals attempt to develop a sense of their identity in (sometimes conflictual) interaction with identities thrust upon them by others. … Thus, elsewhere, Stuart talks about how “at different times in my 30 years in England, I have been hailed or interpellated as ‘coloured,’ ‘West Indian,’ ‘Negro,’ … ‘immigrant’ … sometimes abusively, sometimes in a friendly manner, sometimes ambiguously.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A discourse both enables and constrains how a topic can be constructed; Discourse constructs subject positions that speakers must occupy regardless of belief; Linguistics decentered identity by showing subjects are positioned in pre-existing discourse (+4 more)

Related

• Linguistics decentered identity by showing subjects are positioned in pre-existing discourse (similarity 0.86)
• Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation (similarity 0.85)
• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it (similarity 0.83)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (similarity 0.83)
• The subject is produced by culture, not given before it. (similarity 0.82)
• Subjects are constituted by unconscious cultural categories rather than their authors (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural identity is a forward-directed production, not a recovery of origins (similarity 0.81)
• Discourse constructs subject positions that speakers must occupy regardless of belief (similarity 0.81)
• Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness. (similarity 0.81)
• Identity theories lag behind the linguistic research that has made identity central. (similarity 0.80)
• The subject is positioned by and within discourse, not the source of it (similarity 0.79)
• Discourse theory restores a decentered subject while culturalism restores a unified consciousness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Linguistics decentered identity by showing subjects are positioned in pre-existing discourse #expands (0.88)
• Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23
• Subjects are constituted by unconscious cultural categories rather than their authors #corroborates (0.85)
• Discourse theory restores a decentered subject while culturalism restores a unified consciousness #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 204
• Unified human knowing requires one knowing subject #exemplifies (0.72)