Chantal Mouffe (1943-)

The history of the subject is the history of his/her identifications and there is no concealed identity to be rescued beyond the latter. There is thus a double movement. On the one hand, a movement of decentering that prevents the fixation of a set of positions around a preconstituted point. On the other hand, and as a result of this essential nonfixaty, the opposite movement: institution of nodal points, partial fixations that limit the flux of the signified under signifier. But this dialectics at nonfixaty/fixation os possible only because fixaty is not given beforehand, because no center of subjectivity precedes the subjectś identifications.

(Quelle: Mouffe, Chantal (1977): Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics, in: Tietjens Meyers, Diana (Hg.): Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. New York, 534)