{"id":10833,"date":"2013-04-18T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:19:04","slug":"dolar-beyond-interpellation-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/18\/dolar-beyond-interpellation-1\/","title":{"rendered":"dolar beyond interpellation 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolar, Mladen. “Beyond Interpellation” Qui Parle<\/em> 6.2 (1993): 75-96.<\/p>\n

But the famous formula of interpellation – “the ideology interpellates individuals into subjects”<\/strong> – implies a clean cut as well. There is a sudden and abrupt transition from an individual- a pre-ideological entity, a sort of materia prima<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 into the ideological subject, the only kind of subject there is for Althusser.<\/p>\n

One becomes a subject by\u00a0suddenly recognizing\u00a0that one has always already been a subject: becoming a subject has always takes\u00a0effect\u00a0retroactively \u2014\u00a0it is based on a necessary illusion, an extrapolation, an illegitimate extension of a later state into the former stage.\u00a0 A leap \u2014 a moment of sudden emergence \u2014 occurs.<\/strong> 76<\/p>\n

… there is a part of individual that cannot successfully pass into the subject, an element of \u201cpre-ideological\u201d and \u201cpresubjetive\u201d materia prima that continues to haunt subjectivity once it is constitued as such. A part of external materiality that cannot be successfully integrated in the interior.<\/p>\n

Interpellation was based on a happy transition from a pre-ideological state into ideology: successfully achieved it wipes out the traces of its origin and results in a belief in the autonomy\u00a0 and self-transparency of the subject. The subject is experienced as\u00a0 <em>causa sui<\/em> \u2014 in itself an inescapable illusion once the operation is completed.<\/p>\n

How exactly would materiality entail subjectivation? Why would interpellation require materiality? One could say that materiality and subjectivity rule each other out: if I am (already) a subject, I am necessarily blinded in regard to materiality.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 psychoanalytic point of departure is the remainder produced by the operation; psychoanalysis does not deny the cut, it only adds a remainder. \u00a0 The clean cut is always unclean, it cannot produce the flawless interiority of an autonomous subject. The psychoanalytic subject is coextensive with that very flaw in the interior. (One could say that the psychoanalytic symptom, the starting point of analysis, is its most obvious manifestation). In short, the subject is precisely the failure to become the subject, \u2014 the psychoanalytic subject is the failure to become an Althusserian one.<\/p>\n

For Althusser, the subject is what makes ideology work; for psychoanalysis, the subject emerges where ideology fails. The il1usion of autonomy may wel1 be necessary, but so is its failure; the cover-up never holds fast. The entire psychoanalytic apparatus starts from this point: different subjective structures that the psychoanalysis has discovered and described – neurosis (with its two faces of hysteria and obsession), psychosis, perversion \u2014 are just so many different ways to deal with that rest, with that impossibility to become the subject.<\/p>\n

On the social level as well \u2014 on the level of discourse as a social bond \u2014 the four basic types of discourse pinpointed by Lacan are four different ways to tackle that remainder.\u00a0 Interpellation, on the other hand, is a way of avoiding it: it can explain its proper success,\u00a0 but not how and why it does not work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dolar, Mladen. “Beyond Interpellation” Qui Parle 6.2 (1993): 75-96. But the famous formula of interpellation – “the ideology interpellates individuals into subjects” – implies a clean cut as well. There is a sudden and abrupt transition from an individual- a pre-ideological entity, a sort of materia prima\u00a0\u2014 into the ideological subject, the only kind of … Continue reading “dolar beyond interpellation 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,99,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-interpellation","category-sub-destitute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10842,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}