In structuralist thought the speaking subject is spoken by unconscious cultural structures

Evidence

The culturalists had defined the forms of consciousness and culture as collective. But they had stopped far short of the radical proposition that, in culture and in language, the subject was “spoken by” the categories of culture in which he/she thought, rather than “speaking them.” These categories were, however, not merely collective rather than individual productions: they were unconscious structures. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the defining structuralist inversion of the subject — that culture speaks through people rather than the reverse.
• XREF: connects to: The family functions as a haunted structure that speaks ahead of its members — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 107; the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”