Butler in her 1997 reading of Antigone takes her to the limits of the known, of subjectivity, of subjective destitition because she cannot be known through the symbolic. As does Žižek too. The difference is that, Žižek emphasizes the nature of the surge of subject, the emergence of a subject in the space of the rupture of the situation, of the status quo. This is the monstrous human, the neighbour as Thing, emerges in the moment of the emergence of the subject. This is why Žižek rejects any notion of Levinasian approach to the Other as a reaching out, of a ‘getting to know you’ or any such thing. That is a recipe for treating the Other not as Thing, but as de-caffinated. We can only approach the Other in the real. It’s tragic as Eagleton states, the destitution of the subject is the only way to the universal.