The central theme is the issue of subjectivation from a broad cultural-historical perspective. In contrast to views like those of Habermas, which suggest that subjectivation can be understood as a kind of growing into a rationally guided communication order that exists counterfactually, the texts align themselves with those who argue that subjectivation is an unconscious process and always an act of violence. (Foucault, Butler, Derrida, in another form Lacan, and many others).