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What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society as a whole in Althusser’s theory is rather like the relation of the small child to his or her mirror-image in Lacan’s. In both cases, the human subject is supplied with a satisfyingly unified image of selfhood by identifying with an object which reflects this image back to it in a closed, narcissistic circle. In both cases, too, this image involves a mi
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― Literary Theory: An Introduction
― Literary Theory: An Introduction
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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
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― Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays
― Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays
