Queerness is overdetermined by static linguistic descriptions which asserts unconditional violence onto queer subjectivities.

Beyond obvious hate speech as a fundamental form of symbolic violence, discursive practices that attempt to appropriate or commandeer human individuality through linguistic description are equally as malignant. Žižek writes, “language simplifies the designated thing, reducing it to a single feature…It dismembers the thing, destroying its organic unity, treating its parts and properties as autonomous. It inserts the thing into a field of meaning which is ultimately external to it.” 64 He then further proposes, “this is why language itself, the very medium of nonviolence, of mutual recognition, involves unconditional violence.” The ability to negotiate, reason, and locate common ground as humans capable of linguistic communication is all stripped away through Scientology’s established canonical texts that restrict debate— Substantially reinforced and legitimized through the religious fixture of a founding prophet (L. Ron Subbard). Words themselves do not hold within them an invaluable quintessence, or in other terms, “a stable core that guarantees the identity of a thing.” 65 Rather, essence is created and recreated through an active rhetorical process—“essencing”—that occurs within a specific historical context and is dependent upon an established ideology.66 Because language is not imbued with an inherent truth, this task is undertaken by way of specialized intention on behalf of the author; which, in turn, affects the way a human (as an absorber of information) interacts with the presented literature. I surmise that the notions constructed in Dianetics by author L. Ron Hubbard, predetermine as well as “overdetermine” the ways in which his readers and Dianetics practitioners experience queer bodies in authentic encounters.67 Thus, their “change in sensitivity is sustained by language; it hinges on the shift in [their] symbolic universe. A fundamental violence exists in this ‘essencing’ ability of language: [their] world is given a partial twist, it loses its balanced innocence, one partial color gives the tone of the whole.”