...here, Althusser's famous definition has influenced the discussion that follows. According to Althusser, ideology is a " 'representation' of the imaginary...individuals to their real conditions of existence." Ideology therefore represents individuals' imaginary relations with reality in their lived experience....

...Althusser. Borrowing Lacan's categories of the mirror stage and the imaginary, Althusser insisted that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence."10 Such imaginary relationships are not equivalent to false consciousness, however, because...

...radio, television, etc.), according to Althusser, "functions massively and predominantly by ideology":15 "a 'Representation' of the Imaginary Relationship...Individuals to Their Real Conditions of Existence" ("USA," p. 162). As such this apparatus is always, despite its benign and private appearance, in complicity...

...vision of the self present in its own works as a social ideal. Ideology, as Louis Althusser wrote, is "a 'representation' of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence."15 Dürer's self-portraits represent art as the image of its maker, and as the perfect union...

...as a lived material practice. If discourse comes close to Althusser's definition of ideology as the "representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence", the important difference demonstrated by Orientalism was Edward Said. Orientalism (London: Routledge...

...consciousness helps explain the political significance of acts of interpretation. By defining ideology as "the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence," Althusser argues that social being is itself produced to give object to ideology, which, though it has a material...

...synonym in its ubiquity, power, and invisibility for ideology as it is defined by Louis Althusser as "a 'representation' of the imaginary relationship...to their real conditions of existence" (Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 162). Culture, for Atkinson, is everywhere, and it is by...

...exactly equivalent to the social totality, informs all aspects of that totality. "Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence," Althusser writes, but it is also more than just simple illusion or false consciousness; it is the very principle...

...varied the history of particular ideologies, ideology in general 'is eternal': it always represents 'the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence' (Althusser, 1971, pp. 158, 160-162). If ideology is indeed thus, then there can be no prospect for any definitive...

...also an ideology, in Althusser's redefinition of the term within the Lacanian system: ideology is "the 'representation' of the Imaginary relationship of individuals to their Real conditions of existence."41 In regard to this definition, Fredric Jameson comments, "Ideological representation must...