ABSTRACT
This chapter employs the term 'ideology' in the effort to restate ieks position and tries to make plain where author thinks that rewriting of his theory makes a move toward poststructuralism possible, and where author understands a critical rethinking of the feminine in relation to discourse and the category of the real is needed. It provides an effort to underscore the limitations of psychoanalysis when its founding prohibitions and their heterosexualizing injunctions are taken to be invariant. Central to the task will be the retheorization of what must be excluded from discourse in order for political signifiers to become rallying points, sites of phantasmatic investment and expectation. Crucial to ieks effort to work the Althusserian theory through Lacan is the psychoanalytic insight that any effort of discursive interpellation or constitution is subject to failure, haunted by contingency, to the extent that discourse itself invariably fails to totalize the social field.
