Abstract Focusing upon two main characters in Foe (1968) (a reworking of Robinson Crusoe) by J. M. Coetzee, this paper strives to analyze their transgressing behaviors through conferring Lacanian notions of psychology and linguistics. Friday and Susan Barton, the ones subjugated by Robinson Cruso(e) Daniel (De)foe, are led to somewhat dissimilar paths for self-expression. While Friday, through his silence and primitive dance, struggles to stick to the Imaginary Order, Susan Barton, entrusting Daniel (De)foe for authoring a novel out of her memories, unconsciously succumbs to colonial discourse embracing the Symbolic Order. This apparently reinforces Spivak‘s idea about the subaltern‘s incapability of speaking independently and repudiates our presuppositions about the gender-oriented behavioral codes.

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