Weakness precedes the subject as what disowns and dispossesses it

Evidence

“My power,” said Jesus, quoted by Paul (in older versions of 2 Corinthians), “my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9). Weakness, then, unlike power, and certainly unlike revenge, is not mine. If the subject is the subject of power-double genitiveweakness seems to precede the subject as what is not owned, indeed, as what disowns and dispossesses it. As Judith Butler puts it, “the subject is initiated through a primary submission to power,” a power that can-if it can-then, and perhaps infinitely later and after many turns, become “mine.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Develops the double genitive reading of subjectivity: the subject is both possessor and possessed of power, initiated through primary submission.