Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 15:17:40 EST From: Pete Bratsis <aki-AT-cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Lacan and Althusser Jon, I am puzzeled by your aversion to Lacan's influence on Althusser. On the one hand you seem quite fond of Althusser's notion of interpellation but think that Althusser's work should be purged of Lacanian influences. Is not Althusser's notion of interpellation grounded upon Lacan's views on language and the subject? The 'self' recongizes itself in an utterance and takes on that identity and subjectivity, you recongize yourself in the populist political retoric of 'the people' or 'fellow Americans' in opposition to the elitist/paracitic or foreign 'other' and take on that identity and at least parts of the subjectivity that 'Americans', 'Workers', 'Professors', etc are supposed to embody. Furthermore, is not the notion of overdetermination itself directly appropiated from psycho-analysis. If we purge Althusser of Lacanian and psycho-analytic influences, what are we left with? Peter Bratsis CUNY Grad. Center ------------------
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