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This paper will explore the link between Michel de Certeau‘s writings after May 1968 and the Situationist key notion of re-appropriation. It will argue that de Certeau‘s stress on tactical re-use does not imply a naïve romantic view on subversion. In de Certeau‘s view, the constantly renewed operation of re-appropriation is literally a-subjective and therefore enigmatic. Its true subject, in the original meaning of the word („subjectum‘), is the unconsciousness: daily life is a continuous insistence of the discourse of the Other‘ that punctuates the reigning symbolic discourses and power practices.