Herbart's relational account presupposes a subject capable of sustaining representational opposition, and the constraints governing that sustaining capacity are thereby intrinsic to the psyche.
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psyche(Butler's usage, distinguishing it from the narrower performatively constituted agent)
More than the self or ego constituted through gender imitation; encompasses both the conscious self and the unconscious workings postulated by psychoanalysis
representational opposition(as the capacity a subject must have)
The mind's ability to hold two conflicting or opposite ideas or thoughts at the same time, like imagining both the presence and absence of something.
sustaining capacity(as the mental power being described)
The ability to keep or maintain something over time, in this case the ability to hold opposing ideas in the mind without them canceling each other out.