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Ideology – Louis Althusser EN 2903 Literary Theory
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Ideology Louis Althusser
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Louis Althusser : ideology
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
! Ideology: “representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence”
! Ideology: illusion/allusion
! Ideology: an imaginary relation to real relations
Examples of ideologies ! Democracy
! Multiculturalism
! Capitalism
! Communism
! Individualism
! Liberal humanism
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Literary texts produce or construct ideological subjects
! We are surrounded by ideologies and cannot see them
! Like ‘good taste,’ they are ‘naturalized’, rendered invisible, thought of as ‘just the way things are’ or common sense
! Texts are always imbued with ideologies which we must unpack and de-naturalize in order to reveal and understand the ideologies at work
! There is no outside to ideology
! The ideological subject produced by the text is us—the reader
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Interpellation or hailing
! Individuals are interpellated or hailed as subjects of ideology
! Ideology speaks to an individual through images and language
! Ideology constitutes individuals as subjects
! Subject simultaneously constitute all ideology
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Double meaning of ‘subject’
1. A free subjectivity, with free will, author of its own actions
2. Subjected to the authority of someone dominant (e.g. the Queen’s subjects) stripped of free will except the will to submit to domination
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Interpellation
! Wikipedia: “The process by which ideology addresses the pre-ideological individual and produces him or her as a subject”
! Problem with wikipedia’s definition?
! There can be no “pre-ideological” individual
! The subject is ‘always-already’ interpellated
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Ideology: practices & subjects
! “there is no practice except by and in an ideology”
! “there is no ideology except by the subject and for subjects”
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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State apparatuses Repressive
! Police force
! Military
! Juridico-legal (punitive: jails, reform schools, etc.)
Ideological
! Juridico-legal
! Church
! Schools
! Family
! Culture
! Banks
! Workplaces
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Reading images, reading selves
! as subjects of ideologies, we interpret images and texts
! images and texts interpellate or hail us as viewers who are subjects of the ideological situation depicted
! Images and texts simultaneously tell us the kind of viewer we are
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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YOU WILL
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Ideologies in Dead Poets Society
! How can we identify ideologies at work in a literary text?
! Identify the “imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence”
! Which subject-positions are the boys interpellated into?
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen
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Next class: Nov 15 The Culture Industry (Horkheimer and Adorno 1242)
11-11-10 Professor S. Jeppesen