The subject ("self") is like a filter of predetermined shape, i.e.
the identity of the subject which has been prescribed by the preexisting
social structure of family/culture, which takes on the residue of various ideologies
as they pass through it; this happens in light of what Althusser claims to be
the ambiguous nature of the term "subject": that is refers to a "free
subjectivity, a center of initiatives, author of an responsible for its actions"
and/or that is refers to "a subjected being who submits to a higher authority,
as is therefore stripped of all freedom except that of freely accepting his
submission" (303). --Melissa
Ideology, a two-fold material element, both constitutes (via interpellation)
the human/individual subject with its illusions of (or
ideologies about) the individual's relation to things, and is co-dependent on
the (human) subject (who assumes the posture and enacts or compels the rituals)
for its very existence. --Mike
(Klages on Althusser)
Althusser's philosophical notion of interpellation describes the transformation
of the individual into a
subject, where subject is a function of a Subject with a capital S, or "the
structural possibility of
subjecthood"; drawing connections between Marxism and psychoanalysis,
the Subject (with a capital S) and the
Lacanian "Other" are twin principles: by and through them identity
(ideological or social) is fashioned.--Yana