The essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (ISAs) contains a famous statement about ideology in relation to the psychoanalytic problematic: namely, that “ideology is eternal, exactly like the unconscious.” However, Althusser does not offer any further clarification on this parallelism. Further, in a letter from the late 1970s, he states that he has “stopped short … before the question … about the ‘relations’ between ideology (or concrete ideological formations) and the unconscious.” But in a text that precedes the ISA essay, “Three Notes on the Theory of Discourses,” published posthumously, Althusser tried to develop exactly a theory of the articulation of the ideological and of the unconscious, using a new set of concepts. In this text he combined systematically and for the first time what, borrowing a term from Balibar, could be called an “ontology of relations,” with the categories of the “encounter” and “taking hold.”.

Morfino, V., Pippa, S. (2019). Beyond the “Repressive Hypothesis”: “Subject-” and “Libido-Effect” in Althusser. RETHINKING MARXISM, 31(3), 273-290 [10.1080/08935696.2019.1626144].

Beyond the “Repressive Hypothesis”: “Subject-” and “Libido-Effect” in Althusser

Morfino, V;Pippa, S
2019

Abstract

The essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (ISAs) contains a famous statement about ideology in relation to the psychoanalytic problematic: namely, that “ideology is eternal, exactly like the unconscious.” However, Althusser does not offer any further clarification on this parallelism. Further, in a letter from the late 1970s, he states that he has “stopped short … before the question … about the ‘relations’ between ideology (or concrete ideological formations) and the unconscious.” But in a text that precedes the ISA essay, “Three Notes on the Theory of Discourses,” published posthumously, Althusser tried to develop exactly a theory of the articulation of the ideological and of the unconscious, using a new set of concepts. In this text he combined systematically and for the first time what, borrowing a term from Balibar, could be called an “ontology of relations,” with the categories of the “encounter” and “taking hold.”.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Desire; Discourse; Ideology; Interpellation; Unconscious;
Althusser, Freud, Ideology, Subject, Libido,
English
2019
31
3
273
290
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Morfino, V., Pippa, S. (2019). Beyond the “Repressive Hypothesis”: “Subject-” and “Libido-Effect” in Althusser. RETHINKING MARXISM, 31(3), 273-290 [10.1080/08935696.2019.1626144].
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