Monthly Archives for September 2012
Louis Althusser
Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser was a member of the French Communist Party, he revolutionized Marxist theory. Through this work, we’ll know how Althusser interpreted and developed Marx’s work … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Instance of the Letter – Jacques Lacan
Lacan followed Saussure’s structural linguistics and integrates Saussure’s theories in his own opinions. Lacan thought the unity with mother’s body is our primordial experience, all desire is determined by this original lost unity which is unattainable even though all desired … Continue reading → Continue reading
Ideology and power – Louis Althusser
In “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”, Althusser begins by explaining that the ultimate condition of production is the reproduction of the conditions of production. This can happen in precisely two ways: the reproduction of the productive forces and the reproduction … Continue reading → Continue reading
Freud & The Communist Manifesto
Freud One of the ideas that heavily resonated in my head while reading (for the first time) The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, was last week’s reading of Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics and Barthes Mythologies. The most important notion and technique that I picked up from this reading Freud was that of reading … Continue reading Continue reading
Freud & The Communist Manifesto
Freud One of the ideas that heavily resonated in my head while reading (for the first time) The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, was last week’s reading of Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics and Barthes Mythologies. The most important notion and technique that I picked up from this reading Freud was that of reading … Continue reading Continue reading
Marx and Freud
Marx Comunist Manifesto is one of those books that make me think about the strength of ideas and texts. I don’t mean that “the text” actually is the responsible about something, buy his reader do. The idea that … Continue reading Continue reading
Marx and Freud
Marx Comunist Manifesto is one of those books that make me think about the strength of ideas and texts. I don’t mean that “the text” actually is the responsible about something, buy his reader do. The idea that … Continue reading Continue reading
Marx – Manifesto of the Communist Party
The Manifesto of the Communist Party is often considered to be one of the world’s most influential political works. The preamble of the text emphasizes the importance for the Communists to publish and express their views in aims of giving … Continue reading → Continue reading
Marx’s social unconscious
There is no lack of criticism of Marx. Modern economists are quick to dismiss his ideas and declare that both Marxism and communism are dead. I have never understood that dismissal; much of what Marx has to say in the … Continue reading Continue reading
Freud’s scrutin de liste
There is so much to consider in these texts that at moments that it seems foolish to read more than a single author, and even a single passage from a single author. Nevertheless we read quite a few authors in … Continue reading Continue reading
