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- Althusser\'s concept of ideology: Between psychoanalysis and Marxist theory
Althusser\'s concept of ideology: Between psychoanalysis and Marxist theory
Authors : Serhat Toker
Pages : 52-59
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Publication Date : 2023-12-29
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Abstract :Louis Althusser has a privileged position in social theory. He owes this position to the fact that he produces social scientific theory at the intersection of many disciplines. For this reason, it is possible to consider him in general sociological theory, in psychoanalysis, and more specifically in Marxist theory, and evaluate his work as a contribution to these fields. However, what makes him more privileged are his writings on the Subject, Self and ideology and the contributions each discipline has made in this field. In this respect, Althusserian thought is an original attempt at explanation that works through the formation of the subject and the direct and indirect relationship of the subject with alienation in this formation. To put it more clearly, he applied structuralist thought to Marx\'s approaches just as Lacan did to Freud. And again, just as it was true for Lacan and Freud, he revealed the structural and constitutive features of \"false consciousness\", which Marx saw as a situation that needed to be changed and corrected. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the importance of Althusser\'s approach to the subject, as well as to expand the Marxist theory with a structuralist possibility. In this context, this paper paper deals with the way in which the category of ideology is studied by Althusser especially with the following questions: What is the metatheoretical standpoint of Althusser? What is the particular place of Althusser in the Marxism of the twentieth century? What is understood by Althusser by the term ideology? What is the particular contribution of Althusser into the Marxist theory of ideology. What is the implication of Althusser’s theory of ideology for a theory of subject?Keywords : Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, özne, ideoloji, Marxizm