File spoon-archives/marxism-psych.archive/marxism-psych_1997/97-03-06.061, message 16


Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:38:25 -0500
From: Ben Davidson <100414.3660-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: M-PSY: Ideology and psychology 4/4


Chris, et al,

>> Now to atempt Jeffrey's question,
>> 
>> [I am finding that in my research I am becoming more and more interested
>>in
>> what I would call the "psychological dynamics of interpellation."  Louis
>> Althusser--we recall--termed "interpellation" the process whereby
subjects
>> are structured by ideology.

I have just got around to reading the stuff from earlier in the Autumn on
interpellation, Althusser, introjection of ideology etc., all of which was
new and daunting.  At the time I had too much on to read all the material
you sent, Chris, but now having read it I just wanted to say thanks for all
the effort you put into explaining the terms and thinking it all through. 
Were you writing about the subject anyway?

Having sorted out some similarities and crossovers in thinking between
object relations theory and Althusser's interpellation, I am left pondering
over the functioning of ideology once it has thus been swallowed,
introjected, iterpellated or whatever else.  What do any of these thinkers
(or anyone else) say about how we might now discern in our beliefs and
attitudes what is unanalysed blind adherence to ideology, what is
self-interest and what is genuine ethical sensibility? 

Ben


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