Semiotic Subversion 2
“practice is determined by the pulverization of the unity of consciousness by a nonsymbolic outside, on the basis of objective contradictions and, as such, it is the place where the signifying process is carried out . . . In this moment of heterogeneous contradiction, the subject breaks through h[er] unifying enclosure and, through a leap (laughter? Fiction?), passes into the process of social change that moves through h[er]”
Kristeva, 1984, Revolution in Poetic Language. Columbia. (Quoted in Murphy.)