 | Maurice Bloch - History - 1986 - 230 pages
...misrepresentations of the world that legitimate exploitation; thus Althusser in a brilliant essay defines it as a 'representation of the imaginary relationship of...individuals to their real conditions of existence'. The function of ideology for him is to ensure the reproduction of the relations of production and it... | |
 | Peter Burke, Roy Porter - History - 1987 - 236 pages
...a part of ideology, defining this slippery term in the words of the philosopher Louis Althusser as a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. 57 Others, unhappy with this sharp distinction between the 'real' and the 'imaginary', might prefer... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 472 pages
...unconscious is eternal, Althusser proposes that "ideology is eternal," that is, always there as the " 'representation' of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. " Reflecting a radical transformation in conceptions of reality itself and in the role of language... | |
 | Art Berman - History - 1988 - 348 pages
...himself comes to perceive it, is, then, an artificial construction, language in the shape of ideology. Ideology is a "representation of the imaginary relationship...individuals to their real conditions of existence" (162; emphasis added), to the "real relations in which they they live" (165). Since ideology "has the... | |
 | Walter Albert Davis - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 444 pages
...taught to employ in constituting myself as a subject. Ideology may thus be most meaningfully denned as a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. Among its most important cultural formations are the discursive protocols of philosophy and the narrative... | |
 | Ramón Saldívar - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 268 pages
...the course of this study, I rely mainly on Althusser's provisional definition of the ideological as "a 'representation' of the Imaginary relationship...individuals to their real conditions of existence" (1969, 162). For our purposes, we need retain but two features from this somewhat cryptic definition.... | |
 | Catherine M. Coles, Beverly Mack - History - 1991 - 311 pages
...Ideology, the Mass Media, and Women: A Study from Radio Kaduna, Nigeria Ideology has been defined as "a 'representation' of the imaginary relationship...to their real conditions of existence" (Althusser 1977:152). In other words, ideologies are the ideas and beliefs through which people make sense of... | |
 | Rob Wilson - American poetry - 1991 - 358 pages
...distance the reign of idealist "ideology" in their materia poetica. They are able, that is, to produce "a 'Representation' of the Imaginary Relationship of Individuals to their Real Conditions of Existence."26 As "illusion/ allusion," such representational structures of the sublime allow individual... | |
 | Bobby Joe Leggett, Bobby L. Leggett - Poetry - 1992 - 300 pages
...intertextual reading are discussed in more detail in the introductory chapter. M Althusser defines ideology as "a 'representation" of the imaginary relationship...individuals to their real conditions of existence" (162). In my rephrasing I have evaded the question of whether ideology is to be set against a "real"... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Bellamy - History - 1992 - 282 pages
...inherent in Althusser's concept of interpellation, constituted by his landmark conception of ideology as a " 'representation' of the imaginary relationship...individuals to their real conditions of existence," 32 finds a model in the radical discontinuity between Lacan's (by now rather hopelessly clichéd) rubrics... | |
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