[W]e draw heavily on … the disruptive presence of “the real” in any symbolic order, that is, the presence that marks the impossibility of any putative fullness of being, whether at the level of structures, subjects or discourses. Moreover, the effect of our ontological framework is not only to destabilize the conditions upon which the standard models of social science are grounded, but also to provide the conditions for developing an alternative approach to social and political analysis that inter alia concedes a central role to subjectivity (as distinct from subjectivism) in characterizing, explaining and criticizing practices and regimes (11).