Ideologijos išorė: tarp neomarksizmo ir psichoanalizės
The External of Ideology: Between Neo-Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Summary/Abstract: Employing Neo-Marxist philosophy of the XX century and Psychoanalysis, this paper discusses the problem of the external of ideology. The research invokes a dichotomy between epistemology and social ontology as two theoretical perspectives to ideology, which allows to conceptualize the problem of the external in a context where ideology is thought of as a wider phenomenon and is less associated with false consciousness. The paper discusses different concepts of ideology and introduces three options of the external: (i) science, (ii) emancipation as a local exception, (iii) emancipated society. Philosophy of Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière, Herbert Marcuse lets us to highlight certain tendencies: the materialization of ideology and a shift from such Marxist categories as class and production towards concepts of practice, power and will. The paper also investigates the relationship between theory of ideology and the so-called overpassing of epistemology, which, on the one hand, allows us to transcend the tendency to signify social practices as either good or bad ones, yet on the other hand, poses the risk of the radical disassociation from the question of knowledge.

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